Working with 'necessary contradictions': A social realist meta-analysis of an academic development programme review

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-352

  Luckett, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

academic development; programme evaluation; social realism; sociology of higher education; South African higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861553853     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2011.631518     Document Type: Review

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