Meeting standards: teacher education in the further education sector. What of the agency of teacher educators?

Studies in the Education of Adults

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-67

  Lawy, Rob ^a   Tedder, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; life history; professionalism; teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053142619     PISSN: 02660830     EISSN: 14789833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2009.11661573     Document Type: Article

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