Transformative learning and Ancient Asian educational perspectives

Journal of Transformative Education

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-150

  Wang, Victor C X ^a   King, Kathleen P ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andragogy; Buddhism; Confucianism; Reflection; Transformative learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649163449     PISSN: 15413446     EISSN: 15527840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764208322760     Document Type: Article

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