Layers of experience: Forms of representation in a Waldorf school classroom

Journal of Curriculum Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 575-587

  Nicholson, David W ^a  

^a Randolph Macon Woman' College   (United States)

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EID: 0011076434     PISSN: 00220272     EISSN: 13665839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220270050033637     Document Type: Article

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