Epistemological Bricolage: How Practitioners Make Sense of Learning

Administration & Society

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 476-496

  Freeman, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bricolage; learning; public health; public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849092120     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399707301857     Document Type: Article

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