Policing the text: Structuralism’s stranglehold on Australian language and literacy pedagogy

Language and Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 118-132

  Watkins, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84937180071     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500789908666763     Document Type: Article

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