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              Freire, Paolo                                           Bakhtin, Mikhail                                   Vygotsky, Lev
"social change AND Freire                           Bakhtin AND polyphony                           Constructivism AND Vygotsky
"Zone of proximal development"                   Bahktin AND (dialog* OR linguistic*)        Vygotsky AND "cognitive development"
freire AND "transformative learning"             "critical pedagogy" AND Bahkti                Vygotsky AND "learning theory"

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Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers.
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Offers a broad coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Provides access to journals, books, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, and author profiles. Subjects include abortion, criminology and criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, political sociology, religion, social work, sociological research and theory.

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Unless otherwise noted journals are peer-reviewed

Critical Studies in Education
Devoted to a critical sociology of education
from 03/01/2007 to present
Educational Philosophy & Theory
Publishes articles concerned with all aspects of educational philosophy.
from 1969 to present
Educational Theory
The purpose of the journal is twofold: to foster the continuing development of educational theory and to stimulate discussion of educational concepts and aims among educators
from 1951 to present
Equity & Excellence in Education
Publishes research articles and scholarly essays that address issues of equity and social justice in education.
from 04/01/1997 to present
International Journal of Educational Research
Publishes research manuscripts in the field of education.
from 1986 to present
Pedagogy, Culture & Society
Seeks to provide an international forum for pedagogy discussion and debate.
from 01/01/1999 to present

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