There is nothing generic about graduate attributes: Unpacking the scope of context

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 591-605

  Jones, Anna ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activity systems; culture; graduate attributes; higher education; teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882271463     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2011.645466     Document Type: Article

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