Getting the fish out of the water: Considering benefits and problems of doing research on teacher education at an international level

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2027-2037

  Blömeke, Sigrid ^a   Paine, Lynn ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Cultural context; International comparisons; Mathematics; Social context; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849113742     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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