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This paper reflects on the implications of exploring the intertextual strands of language and culture at work and play in an urban Canadian elementary school classroom in which the author became a teacher researcher. For close to three years, she documented the processes of writing, of action and reflection as part of a hermeneutical inquiry into the lived curriculum of the students and teachers engaged in working with culturally diverse texts and in becoming actors in the multiple plays of language for the purpose of both local and global communications.
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Hasebe-Ludt, E. The Whole World in One Classroom: Teaching Across Traditions in a Cosmopolitan Environment. Interchange 30, 39–55 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007595709630
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