'A little hard piece of grass in your shoe': Understanding student resistance to critical literacy on post-apartheid South Africa

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 63-73

  McKinney, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 9944242061     PISSN: 16073614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/16073610409486360     Document Type: Article

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