When Critical Ethnography Leaves the Field and Enters the Engineering Classroom: A Scoping Review
By: Stephanie Masta and Stephen Secules
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/see.26 | Journal eISSN: 2690-5450
Language: English
Page range: 35 - 52
Submitted on: Jan 15, 2020
Accepted on: Apr 17, 2021
Published on: May 19, 2021
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