Communities of practice and ways to learning: Charting the progress of biology undergraduates

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 890-906

  Orsmond, Paul ^a   Merry, Stephen ^a   Callaghan, Arthur ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communities of practice; distributed cognition; non curricular learning; patterns of participation; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880407859     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2011.606364     Document Type: Article

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