Teachers' capacities to meet students' additional support needs in mainstream primary education

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 448-460

  Bruggink, M ^a   Goei, S L ^a   Koot, H M ^b  

^a WINDESHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

elementary school teachers; mainstreaming; Self efficacy; special needs students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949778394     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2015.1082727     Document Type: Article

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