Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks

Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-249

  James, Mary ^a   McCormick, Robert ^b   Black, Paul ^g   Carmichael, Patrick ^c   Drummond, Mary Jane ^g   Fox, Alison ^b   MacBeath, John ^c   Marshall, Bethan ^d   Pedder, David ^e   Procter, Richard ^c   Swaffield, Sue ^e   Swann, Joanna ^f   Wiliam, Dylan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

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EID: 84917259361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203934319     Document Type: Book

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