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The New Lives of Teachers

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It is almost a truism to note, from reflecting upon experiences and a range of largely small scale qualitative research internationally, that personal biographies and the contexts in which these are played out influence who we are and how we behave as professionals – our motivations, beliefs, aspirations.

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  1. University of Nottingham, England

    Christopher Day

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  1. University of Minho, Portugal

    Maria Assunção Flores

  2. University of Coimbra, Portugal

    Ana Amélia Carvalho

  3. University of Minho, Portugal

    Fernando Ilídio Ferreira

  4. University of Minho, Portugal

    Maria Teresa Vilaça

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Day, C. (2013). The New Lives of Teachers. In: Flores, M.A., Carvalho, A.A., Ferreira, F.I., Vilaça, M.T. (eds) Back to the Future. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-240-2_4

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