Beijing in-service teachers' self-efficacy and attitudes towards inclusive education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 526-534

  Malinen, Olli Pekka ^a   Savolainen, Hannu ^a   Xu, Jiacheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b BEIJING UNION UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attitude; China; Inclusive education; Self efficacy; Teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862807185     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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