The 'Document-Based Lesson': Bringing disciplinary inquiry into high school history classrooms with adolescent struggling readers

Journal of Curriculum Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-264

  Reisman, Avishag ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

curriculum reform; history; instruction; literacy; social studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855929271     PISSN: 00220272     EISSN: 13665839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2011.591436     Document Type: Article

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