'A place of their own': Creating a classroom 'third space' to support a continuum of text construction between home and school

Literacy

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-90

  Cook, Margaret ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classroom practice; Family learning; Pedagogies; Role play; Text construction; Third space

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944473227     PISSN: 17414350     EISSN: 17414369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4350.2005.00405.x     Document Type: Review

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