Critical creativity: Melding, exploding, blending

Educational Action Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-266

  McCormack, Brendan ^a,b,c   Titchen, Angie ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United Kingdom)

^e Fontys University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action Research; Critical Creativity; Critical Paradigm; Practice Development; Praxis; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849135247     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650790600718118     Document Type: Article

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