From isolation to symphonic harmony: Building a professional development community among teacher educators

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1641-1651

  Hadar, Linor ^a   Brody, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Efrata College of Education   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collegiality; Community of learners; Professional development; Professional isolation; Teacher collaboration; Teacher educators

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956496082     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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