Mentor teachers: Their perceived possibilities and challenges as mentor and teacher

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages 106-116

  Jaspers, W Marieke ^a   Meijer, Paulien C ^b   Prins, Frans ^a   Wubbels, Theo ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mentor role; Mentor teacher perceptions; Mentoring; Primary education; Teacher role

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908067572     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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