Undergraduate geographers' understandings of geography, learning and teaching: a phenomenographic studyFootnote

The members of the INLTGHE team are Richard Baker (Australian National University), Robert Bednarz (Texas A & M), John Bradbeer (Portsmouth), Andrew Bradley (Gloucestershire), John Campbell (Waikato), Susan Hardwick (Oregon), Mick Healey (Gloucestershire), Roy Jones (Curtin), Pauline Kneale (Leeds), Richard Le Heron (Auckland), Kevin McCracken (Macquarie), Melanie Milicich (Auckland), Eric Pawson (Canterbury), Alan Pilgrim (Curtin), Diana Porteous (Waikato), Michael Solem (Southwest Texas), Christina Stringer (Auckland).

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