Physical education teachers' career-long professional learning: Getting personal

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 571-591

  Makopoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Armour, Kathleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers to learning; Learning capacity; Personal factors; Personalised learning; Professional learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856410939     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.601138     Document Type: Article

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