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Teacher Development
An international journal of teachers' professional development
Volume 26, 2022 - Issue 3
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Teachers as writing students: narratives of professional development in a leisure-time creative writing community

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Pages 432-451 | Received 12 Jun 2020, Accepted 21 Jan 2022, Published online: 23 Jun 2022

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