An alternative conception of mentor-novice relationships: Learning to teach in reform-minded ways as a context

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 473-489

  Wang, Jian ^a   Odell, Sandra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mentoring relationship; Teacher learning; Teaching reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947236043     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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