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Enhancing Quality to Address Frailty

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Pedagogic Frailty and Resilience in the University

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In preparing to face a globalised society characterised by uncertainty, complexity, risk and speed, academics and their students, it will be argued here, need to encounter a certain strangeness, dealing with knowledge that is uncomfortable, challenging and troublesome.

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Land, R. (2017). Enhancing Quality to Address Frailty. In: Kinchin, I.M., Winstone, N.E. (eds) Pedagogic Frailty and Resilience in the University. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-983-6_13

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