Struggling with workload: Primary teachers' experience of intensification

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1150-1157

  Ballet, Katrijn ^a   Kelchtermans, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Education policy; Intensification; Professional identity; Teachers' work lives; Working conditions; Workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349217133     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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