It’s just the facts, or is it? the relationship between teachers’ practices and students’ understandings of history

Theory and Research in Social Education

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-108

  Grant, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 1842586204     PISSN: 00933104     EISSN: 21631654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00933104.2001.10505930     Document Type: Article

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