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teachers as mothers  

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  • Mothers are normally their children's first teachers, and education begins long before formal schooling. Sara Lightfoot highlights the complex, multidimensional interaction between home and school by placing mothers and female elementary teachers at the center of the socialization process. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Teachers as Mothers]

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