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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

By
Mario Carretero ,
Floor van Alphen  and
Cristian Parellada
Edited by
Alberto Rosa  and
Jaan Valsiner
Alberto Rosa
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Aalborg University, Denmark
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 424 - 442
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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