Competency-based curriculum development in the informal sector: The case of sewing skills training in rural South India

International Review of Education - Tập 65 Số 6 - Trang 905-928 - 2019
Muthuveeran Ramasamy1, Matthias Pilz2
1VIT University, Vellore, India
2G.R.E.A.T. (German Research Center for Comparative Vocational Education and Training), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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