Classroom assistants: How do they know what to do in the classroom?

Improving Schools

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-38

  Calder, Isobel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84993661446     PISSN: 13654802     EISSN: 14757583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136548020300600106     Document Type: Article

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