Research on mentor education for mentors of newly qualified teachers: A qualitative meta-synthesis

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-86

  Aspfors, Jessica ^a   Fransson, Göran ^b  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Induction; Mentor education; Mentoring; Newly qualified teachers; Qualitative meta synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923360816     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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