"Every city has soldiers": The role of intergenerational relationships in participatory literacy communities

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-162

  Fisher, Maisha ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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