Making learning the object: Using cultural historical activity theory to analyze and organize student teaching in urban high-needs schools

Teachers College Record

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Anderson, Lauren ^a   Stillman, Jamy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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