Learning shock: The trauma of return to formal learning

Management Learning

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-297

  Griffiths, Dorothy S ^a   Winstanley, Diana ^a,b   Gabriel, Yiannis ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping; Cross cultural; Culture shock; International students; Syndicate learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144499304     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507605055347     Document Type: Review

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