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Fathers and male guardians are important stakeholders in children’s education: do Lego building and scratch-like programming activities hold a key to involving them more?

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Fathers and male guardians are important stakeholders in children’s education: do Lego building and scratch-like programming activities hold a key to involving them more? . / Passey, Donald; Hawkins, Gavin; Clift, Darren.
Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education. ed. / Torsten Brinda; Nicholas Mavengere; Ilkka Haukijärvi; Cathy Lewin; Don Passey. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 3-15 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 493).

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Passey, D, Hawkins, G & Clift, D 2016, Fathers and male guardians are important stakeholders in children’s education: do Lego building and scratch-like programming activities hold a key to involving them more? . in T Brinda, N Mavengere, I Haukijärvi, C Lewin & D Passey (eds), Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 493, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54687-2_1

APA

Passey, D., Hawkins, G., & Clift, D. (2016). Fathers and male guardians are important stakeholders in children’s education: do Lego building and scratch-like programming activities hold a key to involving them more? . In T. Brinda, N. Mavengere, I. Haukijärvi, C. Lewin, & D. Passey (Eds.), Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education (pp. 3-15). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 493). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54687-2_1

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Passey D, Hawkins G, Clift D. Fathers and male guardians are important stakeholders in children’s education: do Lego building and scratch-like programming activities hold a key to involving them more? . In Brinda T, Mavengere N, Haukijärvi I, Lewin C, Passey D, editors, Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. 2016. p. 3-15. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-54687-2_1

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Passey, Donald ; Hawkins, Gavin ; Clift, Darren. / Fathers and male guardians are important stakeholders in children’s education : do Lego building and scratch-like programming activities hold a key to involving them more? . Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education. editor / Torsten Brinda ; Nicholas Mavengere ; Ilkka Haukijärvi ; Cathy Lewin ; Don Passey. Heidelberg, Germany : Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 3-15 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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