'They call me wonder woman': The job jurisdictions and work-related learning of higher level teaching assistants

Cambridge Journal of Education

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-112

  Hancock, Roger ^a   Hall, Thelma ^a   Cable, Carrie ^a   Eyres, Ian ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higher level teaching assistants; Improvised learning; Job jurisdictions; Para professionals; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953486141     PISSN: 0305764X     EISSN: 14693577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2010.481382     Document Type: Article

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