'I like the people I work with. Maybe I'll get to meet them in person one day': teaching and learning practice development with transnational teaching teams

Journal of Education for Teaching

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 232-250

  Keevers, Lynne ^a   Lefoe, Geraldine ^a   Leask, Betty ^b   Sultan, Fauziah K P Dawood ^c   Ganesharatnam, Sumitha ^c   Loh, Vincent ^c   Lim, Jane See Yin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INTI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

internationalisation; practice based; professional development; transnational

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899527202     PISSN: 02607476     EISSN: 13600540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02607476.2014.903024     Document Type: Article

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