Extreme Apprenticeship: Instructional Change as a Gateway to Systemic Improvement

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 351-365

  Rämö, Johanna ^a   Reinholz, Daniel ^b   Häsä, Jokke ^a   Lahdenperä, Juulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Departmental culture; Four frames; Institutional change; Mathematics education; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065733255     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-019-9467-1     Document Type: Article

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