'Third spaces' are interesting places: Applying 'third space theory' to nursery-aged children's constructions of themselves as readers

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-66

  Levy, Rachael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital technologies; Home and school discourses; Multi dimensional texts; Multimodal texts; Reading; Third space theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149111846     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: 17412919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798407087161     Document Type: Article

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