Literacy, culture, and politics of schooling: Counternarratives of a Chinese Canadian family

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-204

  Li, Guofang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 0038724124     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2003.34.2.182     Document Type: Article

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