'The very defective and erroneous method': Reading instruction and social identity in elite eighteenth-century learners

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-156

  Jajdelska, Elspeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77951689416     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054981003696648     Document Type: Article

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