"Everything they were giving us created tension": Creating and managing tension in a graduate-level multicultural course focused on literacy methods

Multicultural Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 42-49

  Assaf, Lori Czop ^a   Dooley, Caitlin McMunn ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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