Mapping and Visualizing the Social Work Curriculum.
This is a methodological article describing how a national social work education research project constructed a taxonomy of educational terms and used database and data visualization software to map the social work curriculum in New Zealand. Mapping the curriculum is difficult enough in the context...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Technology in Human Services Vol. 37; no. 2/3; pp. 184 - 203 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr-Sep2019
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