Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach

Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-192

  Priestley, Mark ^a,b,c   Biesta, Gert ^d,e   Robinson, Sarah ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b British Educational Research Association (BERA)   (United Kingdom)

^c European Educational Research Association Curriculum Development Network   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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