Why i want to teach and how i feel about teaching-formation of teacher identity from pre-service to the beginning teacher phase

Educational Research for Policy and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-72

  Chong, Sylvia ^a   Low, Ee Ling ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beginning teacher identity; Perception of teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349286994     PISSN: 15702081     EISSN: 15731723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10671-008-9056-z     Document Type: Article

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