Diverse voices: Middle years students' insights into life in inclusive classrooms

Exceptionality Education International

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-16

  Katz, Jennifer ^a   Porath, Marion ^a   Bendu, Charles ^b   Epp, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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