Learning to Improve Practice: Lessons from Practice Stories and Practitioners' Own Discourse Analyses (or Why Only the Loons Show Up)

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-26

  Forester, John ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

community planning; democratic process; discourse analysis; pedagogy; planning practice

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION; LEARNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOCAL PLANNING; PLANNING PRACTICE; STUDENT;

GAVIIDAE;

EID: 84859559845     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2012.649905     Document Type: Article

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