Nurturing dialogic hermeneutics and the deliberative capacities of communities in focus groups

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-95

  Freeman, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Focus groups; Philosophical hermeneutics; Poetic transcriptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646267232     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800405282797     Document Type: Article

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