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‘I don’t feel like ‘a student’, I feel like ‘me’!’: the over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s)

R. Waller University of the West of England, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 115-130 | Published online: 16 Aug 2006

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