Whose side are you on? Advocacy ethnography: Some methodological aspects of narrative portraits of disadvantaged young people, in socially critical research

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Smyth, John ^a   McInerney, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

advocacy ethnography; critical ethnography; portraiture; social disadvantage; voiced research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872407183     PISSN: 09518398     EISSN: 13665898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2011.604649     Document Type: Article

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