Research and teacher education in the UK: Building capacity

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 944-950

  Murray, Jean ^a   Campbell, Anne ^b   Hextall, Ian ^c   Hulme, Moira ^d   Jones, Marion ^e   Mahony, Pat ^c   Menter, Ian ^d   Procter, Richard ^f   Wall, Karl ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early and mid career researchers; Institutional development; National policy; Network learning; Research capacity building; Teacher education research

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849107795     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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