What happens when learning takes place?

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Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-282

  Swann, Joanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Autonomous activity; Educational policy and practice; Imaginative criticism; Karl Popper; Learning; Logic of learning; Philosophy; Problems; Trial and error; Trial solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037622623     PISSN: 08264805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007652708139     Document Type: Article

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