Transnational Discourses of Knowledge and Learning in Professional Work: Examples from Computer Engineering

Studies in Philosophy and Education

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-195

  Nerland, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Discourses of knowledge; Governmentality; Learning; Professional work

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951253801     PISSN: 00393746     EISSN: 1573191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11217-009-9170-2     Document Type: Article

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