Strategic Decisions: Ambitions, Feasibility and Context

摘要

The main aim of this paper is to identify some of the main issues which call for strategic decisions in the early stages of designing new materials. I do this by giving short accounts of four different innovations in which I have been personally involved, and then, in summary, comment on how these indicate both the complex interplay of five issues – research basis, curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and sustainability – and how, according to the contexts, some might be left alone and others are crucial. It is argued that both successful implementation and long-term impact are crucially dependent on teacher change.