Educating pulp and paper engineers for the global forest industry

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1024-1037

  Savander Ranne, Carina ^a   Häggblom Ahnger, Ulla ^b   Kolari, Samuli ^b  

^a HAAGA HELIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b University of Applied Sciences   (Finland)

Author keywords

CLIL; Content and language integrated learning; Developing teaching methods; Student centred teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349022655     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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