Personal epistemology in higher education: Teachers' beliefs and the role of faculty training programs

Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 54-67

  Strømsø, Helge I ^a   Bråten, Ivar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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