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Illuminating Boys, Teachers and Their Working Relationships

I Can Learn From You: Boys as Relational Learners. By Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Education Press, 2014. 204 pp. $26.95 (paperback) ISBN-13:978-1-61250-664-7

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Weaver-Hightower, M. Illuminating Boys, Teachers and Their Working Relationships. Sex Roles 71, 275–277 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-014-0405-5

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