Promoting Professional Subjectivities and Personal Agency at Work: The Long-Term Influences of an Empowerment Programme

Emerging Perspectives of Workplace Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 97-112

  Hänninen, Salme ^a   Eteläpelto, Anneli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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EID: 84856920453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/9789087906450_008     Document Type: Chapter

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