The politics of learning to read: 1940s debates over literacy instruction in the New Zealand primary school

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-166

  Soler, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Educational history; Functional literacy; Literacy education; Reading skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032243130     PISSN: 00288276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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