Educating for learning-focused teaching in teacher training: The need to link learning content with practice experiences within an inductive approach

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 874-897

  Schelfhout, Wouter ^a   Dochy, Filip ^a   Janssens, Steven ^a   Struyven, Katrien ^a   Gielen, Sarah ^a   Sierens, Eline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Constructivist teaching; Inductive teacher training; Learning focused teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749512777     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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