Communities of practice in higher education: contradictory narratives of a university-wide curriculum reform

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1941-1957

  Annala, Johanna ^a   Mäkinen, Marita ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

community of practice; curriculum as process; curriculum reform; higher education; narrative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954223726     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1125877     Document Type: Article

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