The nature and outcomes of students' longitudinal participatory research on literacy motivations and schooling

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-317

  Oldfather, Penny ^a   Thomas, Sally ^b   Eckert, Lizz ^c   Garcia, Florencia ^c   Grannis, Nicki ^c   Kilgore, John ^c   Newman Gonchar, Andy ^c   Petersen, Brian ^c   Rodriguez, Paul ^c   Tjioe, Marcel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 427 Aderhold Hall ^*

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