Negotiating researcher roles in ethnographic program evaluation: A postmodern lens

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 278-288

  Harklau, Linda ^a   Norwood, Rachel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Acad Athens 14 Anagnostopoulou S   (Greece)

^c University of Georgia ^*

Author keywords

Ethnographic program evalua tion; Evaluators; Postmodernism; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144516362     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2005.36.3.278     Document Type: Article

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