Locating learning in teachers' communities of practice: Opening up problems of analysis in records of everyday work

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 917-946

  Warren Little, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Data analysis issues; Records of practice; Teacher learning; Theoretical framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036830425     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(02)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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