Crossing horizons: Continuity and change during second-career teachers' entry into teaching

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1530-1550

  Tigchelaar, Anke ^a   Brouwer, Niels ^b   Korthagen, Fred ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Career change; Prior experiences; Second career teacher; Supervision; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 45049085188     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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