A POSITIVE, AFRICAN ETHICAL APPROACH TO COLLECTING AND INTERPRETING DRAWINGS: SOME CONSIDERATIONS

Picturing Research: Drawing as Visual Methodology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-61

  Theron, Linda ^a   Stuart, Jean ^b   Mitchell, Claudia ^b,c  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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