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2018
Volume 98, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

We describe pedagogies of closeness as an alternative to close reading. Re-centering students and their experiences recasts small-group comprehension instruction as a humanizing pedagogy.

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