| Voices from the Classroom Contributor(s): Roffey-Barentsen, Jodi (Author) |
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ISBN: 3659240389 ISBN-13: 9783659240386 Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing OUR PRICE: $81.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Teaching assistants, as 'para-professionals', make up a significant percentage of the total school workforce. This research gave voice to teaching assistants, exploring their perceptions and experiences, in terms of their backgrounds, roles and responsibilities, training, support from their schools whilst training, their aspirations and the progression routes available to them. A small-scale phenomenological study approach was adopted, aimed to interpret and explain human actions and thought through descriptions, capturing first person accounts |