Teacher resistance against school reform: Reflecting an inconvenient truth

School Leadership and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 486-500

  Terhart, Ewald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

School reform; Standards based accountability practices; Teacher resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888381821     PISSN: 13632434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2013.793494     Document Type: Article

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