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Shepherd, Ifan D. H. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1998
Questions some of the assumptions and practices defining most work experience programs in geography. Maintains that most workplaces operate within such a specific function that they limit the acquisition of generic skills. Notes that the very notion of transferable skills has never really been tested. (MJP)
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