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Teaching Heroes: Accounts of their Personal and Professional Approaches to Teaching

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Teaching Heroes: Accounts of their Personal and Professional Approaches to Teaching

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National Forum

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Teaching & Learning

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National Forum Insights, National Forum Publications, Professional Development, Student Success

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Teaching Heroes: Accounts of their Personal and Professional Approaches to Teaching

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This Forum Insight paper summarises key findings from a piece of qualitative research undertaken by the National Forum to explore the personal and professional approaches to teaching of the first group of Teaching Heroes (2014).

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National Forum (03/10/2015). Teaching heroes: accounts of their personal and professional approaches to teaching. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/teaching-heroes-accounts-of-their-personal-and-professional-approaches-to-teaching/ License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).

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