Faculties of education and institutional strategies for knowledge mobilization: An exploratory study

Higher Education

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 501-512

  Sá, Creso M ^a   Li, Sharon X ^a   Faubert, Brenton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Faculties of education; Knowledge mobilization; Knowledge transfer; Organizational strategies; Research use; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952813997     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9344-4     Document Type: Article

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