Resisting the Impositional Potential of Student Voice Work: Lessons for liberatory educational research from poststructuralist feminist critiques of critical pedagogy

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Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-403

  Cook Sather, Alison ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 34547358234     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596300701458962     Document Type: Article

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