Exploring obstacles toeducational reform: Observations from finding a way

Professional Geographer

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 578-585

  Sanders, Rickie ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational reform; Professional development; Teachers as agents of change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000493090     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00195     Document Type: Article

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