Choosing not choosing: The indirections of ethnography and educational research

Discourse

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-375

  Frankham, Jo ^a   Smears, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

audit culture; Emily Dickinson; ethnography; language; methodology; performativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863530357     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2012.681897     Document Type: Article

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