Communicating your findings in engineering education: The value of making your theoretical perspective explicit

European Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-154

  Jawitz, Jeff ^a   Case, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Critical inquiry; Engineering education research; Positivism; Theoretical perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650587421     PISSN: 03043797     EISSN: 14695898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03043790902833317     Document Type: Article

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