Learning to mentor: unravelling routine practice to develop adaptive mentoring expertise

Teacher Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 528-546

  Langdon, Frances J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

adaptive expertise; context; leaders; learning; Mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010659671     PISSN: 13664530     EISSN: 17475120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2016.1267036     Document Type: Article

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