Professional learning places and spaces: The staffroom as a site of beginning teacher induction and transition

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-46

  Lisahuntera, ^a,b   Rossi, Tony ^b   Tinning, Richard ^b   Flanagan, Erin ^b   Macdonald, Doune ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beginning teachers; Place; Space; Teaching profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751480315     PISSN: 1359866X     EISSN: 14692945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2010.542234     Document Type: Article

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