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Reframing Classroom Research: A Lesson from the Private World of Children

Adrienne Alton-Lee, Graham Nuthall and John Patrick
Harvard Educational Review April 1993, 63 (1) 50-85; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.63.1.uh00236162314763
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