About the Authors

"Relationships between the school-level and classroom-level environment in secondary schools in South Africa"

Jill Aldridge

Jill Aldridge is Associate Professor at the Science and Mathematics Education Centre at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Her research focuses on teaching and learning, especially the use of teacher professional development and action research as meaningful tools for
improvement.

Barry Fraser

Barry Fraser is Professor and Director of the Science and Mathematics Education Centre at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He is Editor of Springer’s Learning Environments
Research: An International Journal.

Rüdiger C Laugksch

Rüdiger Laugksch is Associate Professor and Director of the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. His research interests include science teacher development, learning
environments, and teaching and learning in science.