On telling stories but hearing snippets: Sense-taking from presentations of practice

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 371-388

  Sims, David ^a   Huxham, Chris ^b   Beech, Nic ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imagination; Learning; Narrative; Public presentations; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249093871     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409102301     Document Type: Article

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