Learning to play the seminar game: Students' initial encounters with a basic working form in higher education

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-41

  Fejes, Andreas ^a   Johansson, Kristina ^a   Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 27944476425     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1356251052000305516     Document Type: Review

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