Student engineers and engineer identity: Campus engineer identities as figured world

Cultural Studies of Science Education

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-307

  Tonso, Karen L ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community of Practice; Ethnography; Gender; Identity; Practice theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646830399     PISSN: 18711502     EISSN: 18711510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-005-9009-2     Document Type: Article

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