Changing the pattern of gendered discussion: Lessons from science classrooms

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-47

  Guzzetti, Barbara J ^a,b   Williams, Wayne O ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Campus Box 870311 ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Mathematics   (United States)

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