Positional identity as a lens for connecting elementary preservice teachers to teaching in urban classrooms

Identity Construction and Science Education Research: Learning, Teaching, and Being in Multiple Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 105-121

  Mensah, Felicia Moore ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-043-9     Document Type: Chapter

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