Teacher-student relationship at university: an important yet under-researched field

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 370-388

  Hagenauer, Gerda ^a   Volet, Simone E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

faculty student interaction; higher education; teacher student relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901692182     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2014.921613     Document Type: Article

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