The significance of individual biography in workplace learning

Studies in the Education of Adults

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-24

  Hodkinson, Phil ^a   Hodkinson, Heather ^a   Evans, Karen ^b   Kersh, Natasha ^b   Fuller, Alison ^c   Unwin, Lorna ^c   Senker, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communities of practice; learners; learning biographies; lifelong learning; situated learning; workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244486216     PISSN: 02660830     EISSN: 14789833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2004.11661484     Document Type: Article

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