'You just have to see it': Exploring the forms of expert pattern recognition in the development of chemical technology

Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 393-420

  Yli Kauhaluoma, Sari ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chemical technology; Expert pattern recognition; Physical setting; Seeing; Situated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745666501     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508406063490     Document Type: Article

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