Mentoring of new teachers as a contested practice: Supervision, support and collaborative self-development

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-164

  Kemmis, Stephen ^a   Heikkinen, Hannu L T ^b   Fransson, Göran ^c   Aspfors, Jessica ^d   Edwards Groves, Christine ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^d NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Early career teachers; Mentoring; Newly qualified teachers; Practice theory; Professional development; Teacher induction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905261347     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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