Embracing and enacting an occupational imagination: Occupational science as transformative

Journal of Occupational Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 373-388

  Laliberte Rudman, Debbie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dualisms; Praxis; Radical sensibility; Socio political; Sociological imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905746385     PISSN: 14427591     EISSN: 21581576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2014.888970     Document Type: Article

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