Intentionality and expertise: Learning from observations of children at play in multilingual, multicultural contexts

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 239-259

  Long, Susi ^a   Dinah, Volk ^b   Eve, Gregory ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linguistic diversity; Play in multilingual contexts; Sociodramatic play; Syncretism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547672972     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: 15481492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.3.239     Document Type: Article

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