Interviewing the interpretive researcher: An impressionist tale

Qualitative Report

Volumn 17, Issue 30, 2012, Pages

  Frels, Rebecca K ^a   Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J ^b  

^a LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Debriefing interviews; Interviewing the interview; Legitimation; Qualitative interviews; Reflexivity; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870266562     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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