Mindfulness: Views of pre-service early childhood teachers

2020-10-01
Tonga, Funda Eda
Erden, Feyza
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Early childhood education, Mindfulness, Pre-service early childhood teachers
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93596
International e-Journal of Educational Studies (IEJES)
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Article

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F. E. Tonga and F. Erden, “Mindfulness: Views of pre-service early childhood teachers,” International e-Journal of Educational Studies (IEJES), vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 122–137, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93596.
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