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Most of the chapters in this volume address the question: What is the appropriate planning education for students from developing areas? In this chapter I turn this question on its head, asking instead: What is the best way to teach the material with which I have been charged and what does the presence of developing areas students in my course teach me about my teaching?
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Schuster, J.M.D. (1990). Statistically Significant Differences? Students from Developing Areas and the Developing Area of Quantitative Reasoning. In: Sanyal, B. (eds) Breaking the Boundaries. Urban Innovation Abroad. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5781-0_6
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