Learning to play the seminar game: students’ initial encounters with a basic working form in higher educationFootnote1

Andreas Fejes and Kristina Johansson were equal contributors to this article. Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren was supportive in the process of analyzing the data and structuring the article.

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