While no one is watching: Learning in social action among people who are excluded from the labour market

Learning through Community: Exploring Participatory Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 97-116

  Church, Kathryn ^a   Shragge, Eric ^b   Fontan, Jean Marc ^c   Ng, Roxana ^d  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6654-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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