Contexts of teaching and learning: An actor-network view of the classroom

Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching: Communities, Activites and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 31-43

  Fox, Steve ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84917105362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203881750     Document Type: Chapter

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