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Facilitator's Guide to Diversity in the Classroom: A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher Educators
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Facilitator's Guide to Diversity in the Classroom: A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher Educators

by Amalia Mesa-Bains, Judith H. Shulman. 76 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Amalia Mesa-Bains, Judith H. Shulman

Publisher:

   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication:

  Hillsdale, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1994
Subjects:   Minorities--Education--United States--Case Studies, Multicultural Education--United States--Case Studies
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