Field-specific Educational Practices as a Source for Students’ Vocational Identity Formation

Emerging Perspectives of Workplace Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 19-34

  Virtanen, Anne ^a   Tynjälä, Päivi ^a   Stenström, Marja Leena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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EID: 71449095045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/9789087906450_003     Document Type: Chapter

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