Observing school restructuring in multilingual, multicultural classrooms: Balancing ethnographic and evaluative approaches

Observational Research in U.S. Classrooms: New Approaches for Understanding Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 174-204

  Datnow, Amanda ^a   Yonezawa, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33745296470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511616419.008     Document Type: Chapter

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