Urban teacher researchers’ struggles in sharing power with their students: Exploring changes in literacy curriculum genres

Transforming Literacy Curriculum Genres: Working With Teacher Researchers in Urban Classrooms

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-32

  Pappas, Christine C ^a   Zecker, Liliana Barro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410600776-6     Document Type: Chapter

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