Children as ‘competent’ consumers

Understanding Children as Consumers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 239-257

  Kline, Stephen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446251539.n14     Document Type: Chapter

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