Institutional (teaching) entrepreneurs wanted! - considerations on the professoriate's agentic potency to enhance academic teaching in Germany

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education: Teaching, Learning and Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 109-131

  Schmid, Christian J ^a   Lauer, Sabine ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84978767995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315693729     Document Type: Chapter

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