Developing a capacity to engage in critical reflection: Students' 'ways of knowing' within an undergraduate business and accounting programme

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-123

  Lucas, Ursula ^a   Tan, Phaik Leng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business and accounting; critical reflection; epistemological beliefs; ways of knowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872513232     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2011.569706     Document Type: Article

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