The impact of primary school teachers' educational beliefs on the classroom use of computers

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1499-1509

  Hermans, R ^a   Tondeur, J ^a   van Braak, J ^a   Valcke, M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Media in education; Pedagogical issues; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LEACHING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY; TRUCKS;

COMPUTER ATTITUDES; COMPUTER EXPERIENCE; COMPUTER USE; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; EUROPEAN; LEARNING PROCESSES; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; MULTI-LEVEL MODELING; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; SCHOOL TEACHERS; TEACHER BELIEFS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 49449091395     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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