Teacher educators' conceptions of learning to teach and related teaching strategies

Research Papers in Education

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-222

  Donche, Vincent ^a   van Petegem, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Learning to teach; Teacher beliefs and practices; Teacher education; Teacher educator; Teaching approach; Teaching style

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957960777     PISSN: 02671522     EISSN: 14701146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2011.561979     Document Type: Article

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