Confronting School’s Contradictions With Video: Youth’s Need of Agency for Ontological Development
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The Outlines Association
2013-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/outlines/article/view/5796 |
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| ISSN: | 1399-5510 1904-0210 |