Developing effective practice learning for tomorrow’s social workers

Social Work Education

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 763-779

  Parker, Jonathan ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modernising agenda; Practice learning; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044881399     PISSN: 02615479     EISSN: 14701227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02615470601140476     Document Type: Article

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