Robotic technologies: When parents put their learning ahead of their child's

Journal of Interactive Learning Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 341-366

  Beals, Laura ^a   Bers, Marina ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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