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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*
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia
*
Correspondence should be addressed to Peter Westwood, School of Education. The Flinders University of South Australia, GPO 2100 Adelaide SA 5001.

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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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1995

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