Conscious Mind, Forgetting Mind: Two Approaches in Multimethodology

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 669-690

  Zhu, Zhichang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confucianism; Conscious mind; Forgetting mind; Multimethodology; Rational approach; Relational tradition; Spontaneous approach; Synergistic tradition; Taoism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032281937     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022140405046     Document Type: Article

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