A Method for Investigating Practitioner Use of Theory in Practice

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-177

  Floersch, Jerry ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

critical realism; knowledge inaction; practice ethnography; practice narrative; reflective practitioner; technical rational

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248611149     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325004043381     Document Type: Article

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