Learning to teach: Enhancing pre-service teachers' awareness of the complexity of teaching-learning processes

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-107

  Eilam, Billie ^a   Poyas, Yael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classroom; Cognitive perspective; Complexity; Teacher education; Teacher knowledge; Theory practice gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649085074     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540600802661337     Document Type: Article

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