"I'm not a pencil man": How one student challenges our notions of literacy "failure" in school

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 404-414

  Knobel, Michele ^a  

^a NONE   (Mexico)

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