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Introduction: Remixing Teaching through Music

Intertextuality and Intersubjectivity in the Recontextualized ELA Classroom

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We—Lindy and Chris—met following a presentation that Lindy gave at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in 2012. As many good conversations at conferences do, ours led to an idea of future collaboration. We ultimately decided to propose a one-day workshop on the varying uses of music in the teaching of English.

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Johnson, L.L., Goering, C.Z. (2016). Introduction: Remixing Teaching through Music. In: Johnson, L.L., Goering, C.Z. (eds) Recontextualized. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-606-4_1

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