Measuring the importance of precursor steps to transformative learning

Adult Education Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 122-142

  Brock, Sabra E ^a  

^a TOURO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business school students; Transformative learning; Undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649291551     PISSN: 07417136     EISSN: 15523047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741713609333084     Document Type: Article

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