Does gender make a difference? A male researcher’s reflexive account of gendered fieldwork relations in ethnographic work on stress in teaching

Studies in Educational Ethnography

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 209-230

  Troman, Geoff ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35448944852     PISSN: 1529210X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1529-210X(00)80014-5     Document Type: Chapter

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