Teachers' motivation to participate in training and to implement innovations

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Gorozidis, Georgios ^a   Papaioannou, Athanasios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autonomous motivation; Educational innovation; Intentions; Participatory motivation; Professional development; Self determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890829526     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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