Teacher agency and professional learning in cross-cultural teaching contexts: Accounts of Chinese teachers from international schools in Hong Kong

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 12-21

  Lai, Chun ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Gong, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Internationalization of education; Professional learning; Teacher agency; Teacher professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949515714     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2015.11.007     Document Type: Article

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