Fostering lifelong learning - Evaluation of a teacher education program for professional teachers

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-155

  Finsterwald, Monika ^a   Wagner, Petra ^b   Schober, Barbara ^a   Lüftenegger, Marko ^a   Spiel, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lifelong learning; Motivation; Program evaluation; Self regulated learning; Teacher competences; Teacher cooperation; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867285833     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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