'A girl never finishes her journey': Mixing methods to understand female experiences of education in contemporary Ethiopia

Research Papers in Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 393-412

  Camfield, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspirations; Ethiopia; Girls; Mixed methods; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053484474     PISSN: 02671522     EISSN: 14701146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02671520903350297     Document Type: Article

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