Cooperative learning: A pedagogy to improve students' generic skills?

Education and Training

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-137

  Ballantine, Joan ^a   Larres, Patricia McCourt ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Skills; Team learning; United Kingdom; Vocational training

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847789410     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910710739487     Document Type: Article

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