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Article

A multi-year study of pre-service teachers’ literacy practices in the content areas: time epistemologies and indicators of stasis and growth

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Pages 19-35 | Received 25 Apr 2016, Accepted 03 Jun 2017, Published online: 13 Sep 2017

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