Separate or integrate? the contribution of the workshop model to effectively embedding generic skills

Asian Social Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 45-51

  Daly, Anne ^a   Leveson, Lynne ^b   Dixon, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Embedding; Generic skills; Workshop model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858248806     PISSN: 19112017     EISSN: 19112025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v7n4p45     Document Type: Article

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