Toward a Model of Explaining Teachers’ Innovative Behavior: A Literature Review

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 430-471

  Thurlings, Marieke ^a   Evers, Arnoud T ^b   Vermeulen, Marjan ^b  

^a Eindhoven School of Education   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

education; innovative behavior; systematic literature review; teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938567510     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: 19351046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0034654314557949     Document Type: Article

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