Teacher empowerment : an interpretive study of the experience of Asian migrant teachers in Western Australia

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Teacher empowerment : an interpretive study of the experience of Asian migrant teachers in Western Australia

This research was prompted by arguments about the importance of empowerment in professional praxis of school practitioners and related legislations, namely, the Better Schools’ reform in 1987 and the WA Charter of Multiculturalism in 2004, and by persistent feelings of disempowerment and inefficacy...

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Main Author:	Law, Geoffrey Ka Hoo
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2010
Subjects:	cultural dissonance teacher empowerment Asian migrant teachers WA Government schools
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2350

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