Just a knock back? Identity bruising on the route to becoming a male primary school teacher

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-358

  Foster, Tor ^a   Newman, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 38949144146     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13450600500137091     Document Type: Review

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