Knowledge acquisition or participation in communities of practice? Academics’ metaphors of teaching and learning at the university

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 624-643

  Wegner, Elisabeth ^a   Nückles, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

approaches to teaching; conceptions of teaching; metaphors of teaching; universities as communities of practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925246466     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2013.842213     Document Type: Article

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