Exploring and developing graduate teaching assistants' pedagogies via lesson study

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-169

  Dotger, Sharon ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College science teaching; Graduate teaching assistants; Lesson study; Science teaching; Situated cognition; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952497193     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2010.507304     Document Type: Article

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