A study of agency: Multiple construction of choice and decision making in an inquiry-based summer school program for struggling readers

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 568-579

  Heron, Alison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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