Applying a sociocultural approach to Vygotskian academia: 'Our Tsar isn't like yours, and yours isn't like ours'

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-35

  Matusov, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural historical; Dialogical opposition; Equity; Ontological projects; Sociocultural; Vygotskian academia

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949140308     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: 14617056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07085808     Document Type: Article

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