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Studying Teacher Education
A journal of self-study of teacher education practices
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Research Article

Making the Invisible Visible: Identifying Shared Functions that Enable the Complex Work of University-based Teacher Educators

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Pages 351-375 | Received 09 Aug 2022, Accepted 15 Apr 2023, Published online: 31 May 2023

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