Subjects, objects or participants?: Dilemmas of psychological research with children

Research with Children: Perspectives and Practices: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 10-39

  Woodhead, Martin ^a   Faulkner, Dorothy ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203964576     Document Type: Chapter

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