Learning spaces, agency and notions of improvement: What influences thinking and practices about teaching and learning in higher education? An interpretive meta-ethnography

London Review of Education

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 211-227

  Savin Baden, Maggi ^a   McFarland, Lorraine ^a   Savin Baden, John ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Community; Learning spaces; Meta ethnography; Practice; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349188975     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14748460802489355     Document Type: Article

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