How do academics come to know? The structure and contestation of discipline-specific knowledge in a Design School

Higher Education

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 269-290

  Cliff, Alan F ^a   Woodward, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

contestation of knowledge; discipline specific knowledge; epistemologies; teaching and learning; ways of knowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043078439     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HIGH.0000035540.81337.4f     Document Type: Review

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