“…Seldom have such advocates asked if students want, or will accept, educational empowerment. Most classroom innovation research has operated from perspectives that treat respondents as aggregates and concentrate on the innovation process while neglecting the person involved in the process (House, 1979;Smith, Kleine, Prunty, & Dwyer, 1992, Olson, 1992. A more recent line of inquiry (e.g., Butt, Raymond, McCue, & Yamagishi, 1992;Smith et al, 1992) employs a personal perspective to investigate the meaning of innovation from the viewpoints of individuals.…”