Action research as systems change

Handbook of Engaged Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 235-256

  Foster Fishman, Pennie ^a   Watson, Erin R ^b  

^a University Outreach and Engagement   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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