Challenging and changing how schools use teaching assistants: Findings from the Effective Deployment of Teaching Assistants project

School Leadership and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-96

  Webster, Rob ^a   Blatchford, Peter ^a   Russell, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

classroom organisation; collaborative research; school improvement; special educational needs; teaching assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874371750     PISSN: 13632434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2012.724672     Document Type: Article

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