'How far down can you go? Can you get reincarnated as a floorboard?' Religious education pedagogy, pupil motivation and teacher intelligence

Educational Action Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-376

  O'Grady, Kevin ^a,b  

^a Aston Comprehensive School   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Motivation; Pedagogy; Religious education; Teacher intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249123700     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650790802260315     Document Type: Article

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