Accessing, Waiting, Plunging in, Wondering, and Writing: Retrospective Sense-Making of Fieldwork

Field Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-234

  Magolda, Peter M ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84996146350     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X0001200303     Document Type: Article

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