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23 - National Identities in the Making and Alternative Pathways of History Education

from Part VI - Practices and Artifacts for Imagining Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2018

Alberto Rosa
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Aalborg University, Denmark
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