‘We thought we “knew”’, so we “did”': A voluntary organization's beginnings in action research

Action Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 407-429

  Lavie Ajayi, Maya ^a   Holmes, Demelza ^b   Jones, Colette ^b  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b YWCA England & Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

action research; co operative inquiry; collaborative relationships; reflexivity; young women

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249156605     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750307083719     Document Type: Article

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