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The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children

Lisa Delpit
Harvard Educational Review September 1988, 58 (3) 280-299; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.58.3.c43481778r528qw4
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