Identity-trajectory: Reframing early career academic experience

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 952-969

  McAlpine, Lynn ^a   Amundsen, Cheryl ^b   Turner, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84919490219     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: 14693518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/berj.3123     Document Type: Article

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