Using narrative inquiry as a research method: An introduction to using critical event narrative analysis in research on learning and teaching

Using Narrative Inquiry as a Research Method: An Introduction to Using Critical Event Narrative Analysis in Research on Learning and Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-135

  Webster, Leonard ^a   Mertova, Patricie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203946268     Document Type: Book

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