The return of the native: The blurred boundaries of insider/outsider research in an English secondary school

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 857-874

  Perryman, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

case study; ethnography; insider

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858830919     PISSN: 09518398     EISSN: 13665898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2010.529842     Document Type: Article

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