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The Nature of Teacher‐Pupil Interaction in the Active Tutorial Work Approach: using interaction analysis to evaluate student‐centred approaches
Author(s) -
Harwood Doug
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192890150206
Subject(s) - curriculum , mathematics education , pedagogy , work (physics) , pupil , psychology , secondary education , sociology , engineering , mechanical engineering , neuroscience
Active Tutorial Work (ATW) is one of a number of secondary school curriculum initiatives which encourages pupils to become more personally and independently involved in their own learning. This paper reports upon quantitative research, which examines the nature of the interaction between teachers and pupils within the ATW strategy. It concludes that, although there is a greater use of cooperative groupwork, the teacher still remains at the centre of the interaction, whenever present in the group. Comparison is made with a similar analysis of transcripts from the Humanities Curriculum Project (1970).