Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literature Instruction
- ISBN-10
- 0807751294
- ISBN-13
- 9780807751299
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Language and Literacy (Paperba
- Author
- Judith A. Langer
Description
"Lieberman and Friedrich give us the much-needed answers to promoting powerful schools via the wisdom of teachers leading from the classroom to the schoolhouse to the statehouse: an insightful, practical, and most useful book."--Carl Glickman, president, Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy.
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