Documentation and analysis of children's experience: An ongoing collegial activity for early childhood professionals

Early Years

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-170

  Picchio, Mariacristina ^a   Giovannini, Donatella ^b   Mayer, Susanna ^a   Musatti, Tullia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b Department of Education ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

collegiality; documentation; evaluation; professionalism; reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863824754     PISSN: 09575146     EISSN: 14724421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09575146.2011.651444     Document Type: Article

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