Student teaching in the contact zone: Learning to teach amid multiple interests in a vocational english class

Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 442-454

  Smagorinsky, Peter ^a   Jakubiak, Cori ^a   Moore, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beginning teachers; Contact zone; Teacher education; Teacher thinking; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049085738     PISSN: 00224871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022487108324329     Document Type: Article

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