The complexity of bodily events through an ethnographer's gaze: Focusing on the youngest children in preschool

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-65

  Rossholt, Nina ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

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EID: 65549098212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14639491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2304/ciec.2009.10.1.55     Document Type: Article

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