‘Reading the word and the world’–how mind and culture are mediated through the use of dual-language storybooks

Education 3-13

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-251

  Ma, James ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Collaborative learning and intervention; Inter subjectivity; Meditation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350404627     PISSN: 03004279     EISSN: 14757575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004270802217686     Document Type: Article

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