Contexts of mentoring and opportunities for learning to teach: A comparative study of mentoring practice

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-73

  Wang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural study; Instructional contexts; Mentor teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035545396     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(00)00038-X     Document Type: Article

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