Using teachers' prior knowledge, attitudes and beliefs to develop in-service teacher education courses for inclusion

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 543-550

  Symeonidou, Simoni ^a   Phtiaka, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Inclusion; Teacher training

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349089600     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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