Subject Pedagogy in Japan: The Reconstructive Process and the Competitive Relationship of Multiple Subject Pedagogies
By: Kazuhiro Kusahara and Hiromi Kawaguchi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ristal-2024-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2616-7697
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