Organizing schools for productive learning

Organizing Schools for Productive Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-111

  Sharan, Shlomo ^a   Tan, Ivy Geok Chin ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8395-2     Document Type: Book

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