Professional development through action research: Case examples in South African higher education

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-96

  Fletcher, Margaret A ^a   Zuber Skerritt, Ortrun ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Meta action research; Professional development in higher education; Second order evaluation; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749032555     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-007-9083-3     Document Type: Article

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