Teaching family policy in undergraduate and graduate classrooms: Why it's important and how to do it better

Family Relations

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-28

  Bogenschneider, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Family policy; Pedagogy; Undergraduate and graduate college teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645024586     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00353.x     Document Type: Review

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