Growing beans with Thoreau: Rescuing skills and vocational education from the UK's deficit approach

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 147-160

  Unwin, Lorna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1842763622     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305498042000190104     Document Type: Review

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