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How Teacher-Researcher Teams See Their Role in Participatory Research

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Our investigation forms part of a broader study that commenced in 2003. Supportive Teachers, Assets and Resilience (STAR) is an ongoing collaborative project between South African primary and secondary school teachers from three provinces and educational psychology researchers from the Unit for Education Research in AIDS and the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria.

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Ebersöhn, L., Ferreira, R., Mbongwe, B. (2011). How Teacher-Researcher Teams See Their Role in Participatory Research. In: Theron, L., Mitchell, C., Mitchell, C., Smith, A., Smith, A., Stuart, J. (eds) Picturing Research. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-596-3_12

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