Profound improvement: Building capacity for a learning community

Profound Improvement: Building Capacity for a Learning Community

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-173

  Mitchell, Coral ^a   Sackney, Larry ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203826027     Document Type: Book

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