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Research Article

Interrupting practice traditions: using readers’ theatre to show the impact of a nationally mandated assessment task on initial teacher educators’ work

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Pages 419-433 | Received 05 Aug 2020, Accepted 29 Jun 2021, Published online: 19 Jul 2021

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