What makes good teachers great? The artful balance of structure and improvisation

Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-24

  Sawyer, R Keith ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511997105.002     Document Type: Chapter

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