An action research approach with primary pre-service teachers to improve university and primary school classroom environments

Contemporary Approaches to Research on Learning Environments: Worldviews

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 247-272

  Saunders, Kathryn J ^a   Fisher, Darrell L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Australian College of Education   (Australia)

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EID: 39549117967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812774651_0010     Document Type: Chapter

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