Complements or conflicts: Conceptions of discussion and multicultural literature in a teachers-as-readers discussion group

Journal of Literacy Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 137-167

  Smith, Michael W ^a   Strickland, Dorothy S ^a   Carman, John ^b   Dover, Denise ^b   Fiegenbaum, Bruce ^b   Hess, Ronald ^b   Perez Torres, Sonia ^b   Pheffer, Marcia ^b   Richards, Pat ^b   Schiffner, Pat ^b   Smith, Louise ^b   Spencer, Monica ^b   Szep, Kathy ^b   Temperini, Richard ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 31844456283     PISSN: 1086296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10862960109548105     Document Type: Article

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