Instructional planning in a centralized school system: Lessons of a study among primary school teachers in Turkey

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2003-09-01

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Yıldırım, Ali

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53981

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International Review of Education

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https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026361208399

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A. Yıldırım, “Instructional planning in a centralized school system: Lessons of a study among primary school teachers in Turkey,” International Review of Education, pp. 525–543, 2003, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53981.