Beyond you and me: stories for collective action and learning? Perspectives from an action research project

Action Learning: Research and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 146-165

  Gearty, Margaret ^a  

^a New Histories Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

action research; behaviour change; digital storytelling; learning history; narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945444962     PISSN: 14767333     EISSN: 14767341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767333.2015.1005572     Document Type: Article

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