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"Welcome to the Jam": Popular Culture, School Literacy, and the Making of Childhoods

ANNE HAAS DYSON
Harvard Educational Review September 2003, 73 (3) 328-361; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.73.3.d262234083374665
ANNE HAAS DYSON
1 Michigan State University, East Lansing
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