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Research in Special Education

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Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding

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Unlike Frost, I was about to embark on a journey that had not one road less travelled in special education, but two. First, I was going to write my research report as a story using elements of ethnography. Second, I was going to use poetry to collect, analyse and report some of my data.

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  1. College of Education and Public Policy, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA

    Rama Cousik

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  1. University of Hull, UK

    Kathleen T. Galvin

  2. University of Victoria, Canada

    Monica Prendergast

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Cousik, R. (2016). Research in Special Education. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_22

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