Aspects of competence-based education as footholds to improve the connectivity between learning in school and in the workplace

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-38

  Wesselink, Renate ^a   de Jong, Cees ^b   Biemans, Harm J A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CPS Education Development and Advice   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence based education; Connectivity; Life sciences; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952238576     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-009-9027-4     Document Type: Article

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