STEM Professionals Entering Teaching: Navigating Multiple Identities

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-44

  Grier, Jeanne M ^a   Johnston, Carol C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^b Mount St Mary's College   (United States)

Author keywords

Career changer; Identity; Science teaching; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857367945     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-011-9260-1     Document Type: Article

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