Teachers' Enactments of Workplace Conditions and Their Beliefs and Attitudes toward Reform

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-346

  Imants, J ^a   Wubbels, T ^b   Vermunt, J D ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enactment of reform; Secondary education; Teacher agency; Teacher workplace learning; Workplace conditions for learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883796461     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-013-9098-0     Document Type: Article

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