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Social Work Education
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‘If you don’t have a relationship with your tutor...you don’t care about the subject’: revisiting the role of the teacher - getting off the ‘sideline’ and ‘meddling in the middle’

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Pages 809-830 | Received 22 Mar 2021, Accepted 29 Sep 2021, Published online: 13 Oct 2021

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