Authentic and self-directed learning in vocational education: Challenges to vocational educators

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 694-702

  De Bruijn, Elly ^a   Leeman, Yvonne ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University for Humanistics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Authentic learning; Competence based education; Learning activities; Self directed learning; Teacher roles; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952442904     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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