Encouraging better learning through better teaching: A study of approaches to teaching in accounting

Accounting Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 529-548

  Leveson, Lynne ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accounting; approaches to teaching; conceptions of teaching and learning; phenomenography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929467507     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963928042000306819     Document Type: Article

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