Preservice educator's perceptions of teaching in an urban middle school setting: A lesson from the Amistad

Multicultural Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-37

  del Prado Hill, Pixita ^a   Phelps, Stephen ^a   Friedland, Ellen S ^a  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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