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From my very personal, extensive experience, revolutionary researcedpedagogy is resented. The only case where I could totally get away with it
On 08/27/2015 08:22 AM, David Marx wrote:
However, a textbook author would find it difficult to get many
adoptions of his/her book because the majority of teachers will
continue to do what they have always done.
From the point of view of the students, and of the physics
itself, PSSC was probably the best textbook ever written.
However, it did not succeed in the marketplace, and any
would-be reformer would be well advised to figure out why.
I don't claim to fully understand it, but I reckon a big part
of the problem was that the book asked too much of the
teachers. It was too revolutionary. (Students are perfectly
content with revolutionary approaches, and indeed have no
idea what's revolutionary and what's not.)