Saving the teacher's soul: Exorcising the terrors of performativity

London Review of Education

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-167

  Meng, Jude Chua Soo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Design cognition; Foolishness; Performativity; Professionalism; Psychology of design

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349094991     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14748460902990344     Document Type: Article

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