The Affordances of Blogging As a Practice to Support Ninth-Grade Science Teachers' Identity Development as Leaders

Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-222

  Hanuscin, Deborah L ^a   Cheng, Ya Wen ^a   Rebello, Carina ^b   Sinha, Somnath ^a   Muslu, Nilay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

professional development; secondary science education; teacher leadership; weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898894000     PISSN: 00224871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022487113519475     Document Type: Article

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