Teachers' epistemological beliefs as an antecedent of autonomy-supportive teaching

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 402-412

  Roth, Guy ^a   Weinstock, Michael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Internalization; Personal epistemology; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881255669     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9338-x     Document Type: Article

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