Developing teachers for rural education? reflecting on the 2 nd KwaZulu-Natal department of education teacher development conference

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 74-85

  Chikoko, Vitallis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Department of the Education Leadership Management and Policy Discipline

Author keywords

Access success; Leading learning; Partnership; Rurality; Teacher development

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849226012     PISSN: 02582236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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