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https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/headings
Please number all headings (e.g., 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.) to facilitate the editorial process. These numbers will be removed later, so do not refer to them in the text; refer to section titles instead.
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The experience of critical incidents and effective reflection upon them allows teachers to control their classroom actions more consciously and create critical events (CE’s), which were described earlier as intended, planned, and controlled (Woods, 1993).
Woods (1993) believes that critical events are structured and occur in well-defined stages of conceptualization.
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. . . as has been shown (Smithson & Stones, 1999)
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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-26
10.31261/tapsla
English