Love And Life, Teaching And Learning

The conclusions of this research fall naturally into two areas. One is that represented by the first four conjectures presented in Chapter Ten. This may be summarized by saying that the path to school reform is far more complex and difficult than it may at first appear. Perhaps this does not qualify as new knowledge – the last three decades of much-hyped and rapidly discarded curricular and social reforms in schools provide plenty of evidence of the difficulty of innovation. I would suggest, however, that the original contribution of this research is in offering a richer, less abstract and theoretical, more ‘teacherly’ appreciation of the particular kinds and areas of complexity and resistance, as a first step toward addressing them in reforms.