Accounting for-and owning up to-the messiness in cross-cultural/linguistic qualitative research: toward methodological reflexivity in South America's Internet cafés

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1041-1061

  Rubinstein Ávila, Eliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

cross linguistic cultural inquiry; reflexivity; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880944340     PISSN: 09518398     EISSN: 13665898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2012.736642     Document Type: Article

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