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2018
Volume 115, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

The authors offer an understanding of the racialized history of nature writing and explain how English language arts teachers can leverage this understanding to teach nature writing in a way that includes all students.

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