Action research as narrative: Five principles for validation

Educational Action Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-19

  Heikkinen, Hannu L T ^a   Huttunen, Rauno ^a   Syrjälä, Leena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evocativeness; Narrative research; Pragmatism; Truth theories; Validation; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248671380     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650790601150709     Document Type: Article

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