From Programme Theory to Constructivism: On Tragic, Magic and Competing Programmes

Evaluation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 331-349

  Dahler Larsen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

causality; constructivism; context; moderators; programme theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958150090     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13563890122209711     Document Type: Article

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