Interaction between Teachers and Teaching Materials

Creating context-based learning environments has appeared to be quite a difficult problem (Pilot & Bulte, 2006). For teachers it involves a change in pedagogical approach and content to teach within a new vision on the goals and emphasis in science education. The research described in this chapter focuses on the implementation on factors that hinder or facilitate the implementation of innovative context-based teaching materials in classroom practice by senior chemistry teachers who are not familiar with context-based education.