Students' personal professional theories in competence-based vocational education: The construction of personal knowledge through internalisation and socialisation

Journal of Vocational Education and Training

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 481-494

  Schaap, H ^a   de Bruijn, E ^a   Van der Schaaf, M F ^a   Kirschner, P A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Declarative and procedural knowledge; Internalisation and socialisation; Knowledge and beliefs; Personal knowledge development; Personal professional theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953310517     PISSN: 13636820     EISSN: 17475090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13636820903230999     Document Type: Article

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