When things go wrong! placement disruption and termination: Power and student perspectives

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 983-999

  Parker, Jonathan ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure; Power; Practice education; Student voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953838632     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcn149     Document Type: Article

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