Safety in numbers: Mathematics support centres and their derivatives as social learning spaces

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 421-431

  Solomon, Yvette ^a   Croft, Tony ^b   Lawson, Duncan ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Figured worlds; Identity; Mathematics; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953497142     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075070903078712     Document Type: Article

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