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This article, utilizing case stories, argues that the sensitivity of winning techniques to college advancements are inflicting reforms to fail to accomplish their targets. It proposes substitute equipment of introducing swap.

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One example can be seen in the way that schools fragment learners off into age-related groups. The result is that little account is taken of the usefulness of examining different learners' approaches to learning as a result of their different ages and experience. In effect, schools isolate the learning potential of learners by designing learning around age-based theories of learner development. The result of all of this for schools is single-track departments and teaching groups, where teachers are passionate about their own subject but ignorant of the one taught in the very next room, which those same learners will have to visit in perhaps 40 minutes' time.

It implies an awareness amongst staff of the competing influences and contested nature of educational reform. Particularly it raises the problems that exist between approaches to learning that come from outside the school and how these are translated into activity inside the school, so that teachers can think, challenge and respond to the external agent of change. It is, as we will see later in this book, a profoundly difficult balance to get right (Clarke, 1999a). Too much external pressure in the form of individualistic mandated reform results in suspicion and in schools left feeling disengaged and disempowered to take control of their own destiny.

There are more than 40 different species of Wildebeests in the parks of South Africa. Wildebeests are specialists, grazing in dry, open spaces. They are willing to migrate long distances in search of such areas. Wildebeests, like other specialists, are more sensitive to environmental changes. And, like other specialists, they are under greater pressure than are generalists. They are adapted through specialisation to specific conditions within tightly defined boundaries. Another significant species in the park lands of Africa is the impala.

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