Revealing Disagreement and Discomfort through Auto-ethnography and Personal Narrative: Sexuality in Social Work Education and Practice

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-388

  Trotter, Joy ^a   Brogatzki, Lee ^a   Duggan, Lesley ^a   Foster, Emma ^a   Levie, jo ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auto ethnography; disagreement; discomfort; personal narrative; sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249164663     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325006067366     Document Type: Article

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