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Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...

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Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

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