Multigrade lessons for EFA: A synthesis

Education for All and Multigrade Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 301-348

  Little, Angela W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4591-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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