On a personal note: Practical pedagogical activities to foster the development of "reflective practitioners"

American Journal of Evaluation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 334-347

  Jewiss, Jennifer ^a   Clark Keefe, Kelly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Qualitative research; Reflective methods in evaluation; Reflexivity; Subjectivity; Teaching evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548187739     PISSN: 10982140     EISSN: 15570878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098214007304130     Document Type: Article

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