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Snap Shots: Discovering Rachel and Fields that Relate to Her Thinking

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The lengthiest of the chapters, Snap Shots, refer to academic and public thinking related to areas of Rachel’s life and work, from Education to Folklore, Educational Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, and religion. It is a reference tool, a description of fields that contextualize Rachel’s work. It starts out with the “me” of how I came to Rachel’s work to the “we” of the fields that relate to our training and our thinking.

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Rosenberg, J. (2019). Snap Shots: Discovering Rachel and Fields that Relate to Her Thinking. In: Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26222-8_2

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