Social interaction and adolescent's learning in enterprise education: An empirical study

Education and Training

Volumn 49, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 620-633

  Man, Thomas Wing Yan ^a   Yu, Christina Wai Mui ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Education; Learning methods; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249010322     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910710834058     Document Type: Article

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