Practicing praxis: Mentoring teachers in a low‐income school through collaborative action research and transformative pedagogy

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-72

  Morton, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 85009060494     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260500040278     Document Type: Article

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