Not only did they change their practices of questioning, however: they
also changed the way they understood classroom questioning. They
understood it in terms of classroom control as well as in terms of
sharing knowledge. They began to understand more deeply how their
questioning practices could create or deny opportunities for students
to engage actively in the learning process. These teachers also changed
the situations in which they worked, though not without some personal
struggle. Their classrooms changed physically (there were more
resources to support students’ independent enquiries) and socially
(students came to have more control over their own classroom
behaviour, and teachers and students began to negotiate the learning
activities of the classroom).