Drawing upon a three-year case study of teacher initiated innovation, this article challenges the prevailing view that teacher resistance to innovation is pathological. It focuses on the concerns of a group of teachers in relation to their teaching perspectives and shows that 'losers' are a fundamental reality in the process of innovation. The author is in the School of Education at Exeter University.
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Andrew C. Sparkes (1989) studied this question.