The intergenerational field needs more ethnographic research

Child and Youth Services

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 6-23

  Ward, Christopher R ^a  

^a Center for Math and Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Field; Holistic; Intergenerational; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937182716     PISSN: 0145935X     EISSN: 15452298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J024v20n01_02     Document Type: Article

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