Insights into Vocational Learning from an Applied Learning Perspective

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 77-97

  Pridham, Bruce ^a   O'Mallon, Simon ^a   Prain, Vaughan ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Applied learning; Barsalou; Embodied cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862487477     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-011-9063-8     Document Type: Article

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