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Learner and Teacher: Perhaps the most Important Partnership of All

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Peter Westwood
Peter Westwood*
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia
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Correspondence should be addressed to Peter Westwood, School of Education. The Flinders University of South Australia, GPO 2100 Adelaide SA 5001.
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The des english memorial lecture aase national conference, adelaide, 1994

There can be no simplistic model of a “good teacher” - the perception of good teaching, like beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder and depends on the nature of the interaction between teacher and student (Batten: 1993, 13).

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 5 - 16
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1995

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