Qualitative Pedagogy versus Instrumentalism: The Antinomies of Higher Education Learning and Teaching in the United Kingdom

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 206-223

  Ransome, Paul ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79953720560     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2010.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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