Challenging the boundaries between school-sponsored and vernacular literacies: Urban indigenous teenage girls writing in an 'at risk' programme

Language and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 478-492

  Grote, Ellen ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Indigenous; Literacy; Literacy practices; Multicultural; Vernacular literacies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845253878     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/le659.0     Document Type: Article

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