'I treat all students as equal': Further and higher education teachers' responses to diversity

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-263

  Leach, Linda ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diversity; Student retention; Teaching strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957602733     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2010.548858     Document Type: Article

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