Student teachers eliciting mentors’ practical knowledge and comparing it to their own beliefs

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 725-740

  Zanting, Anneke ^a   Verloop, Nico ^a   Vermunt, Jan D ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Concept mapping; Practical knowledge; Sentence completion; Student teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035641059     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(01)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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