‘Whoops, I forgot David’: Children's perceptions of the adults who work in their classrooms

Early Years

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-162

  Eyres, Ian ^a   Cable, Carrie ^a   Hancock, Roger ^a   Turner, Janet ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adults in classrooms; Consulting children; Teachers and teaching assistants; Teaching assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547843792     PISSN: 09575146     EISSN: 14724421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0957514032000733000     Document Type: Article

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