Limitations of language: Developing arts-based creative narrative in stories of teachers' identities

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 549-569

  Leitch, Ruth ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arts based research; Creative narrative; Embodied knowing; Teacher identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548300962     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540600600832270     Document Type: Article

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