Workload and willingness to change: Disentangling the experience of intensification

Journal of Curriculum Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-67

  Ballet, Katrijn ^a   Kelchtermans, Geert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Intensification; Organizational working conditions; Teachers' work; Teachers' work lives; Teaching profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849103727     PISSN: 00220272     EISSN: 13665839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220270701516463     Document Type: Article

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