What motivates teachers? Important work on a complex question

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 492-498

  Hoy, Anita Woolfolk ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic optimism; Research on teaching; Teacher education; Teacher efficacy; Teacher enthusiasm; Teacher motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949100154     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.06.007     Document Type: Note

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