Collaboration with the community to widen participation: ‘partners’ without power or absent ‘friends’?

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 136-150

  Slack, Kim ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84858598197     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2004.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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