Building coherence in research on mathematics teacher characteristics by developing practice-based approaches

ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 583-594

  Thames, Mark ^a   van Zoest, Laura R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Practice; Research on teaching; Teacher beliefs; Teacher identity; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892851254     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-013-0491-9     Document Type: Article

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