Explores how a new teacher’s identity was affected when she attempted to enact a student-centered, i.e., liberal, pedagogy in a school district that was in the process of introducing a heavily scripted language arts curriculum tied to district standardized tests. Concludes that the frustration that the teacher felt was that the curriculum took over the role of planning.
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Smagorinsky et al. (2002) studied this question.
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