What is special about adult learning?

Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15-23

  Illeris, Knud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 84911022272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936207     Document Type: Chapter

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