Doing "diversity" at dynamic high: Problems and possibilities of multicultural education in practice

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-495

  Ngo, Bic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Hmong; Immigrant students; Lao; Multicultural education; Urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951517791     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: 15523535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124509356648     Document Type: Article

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