Creating classrooms that students experience as communities

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 719-748

  Solomon, Daniel ^a   Watson, Marilyn ^a   Battistich, Victor ^a   Schaps, Eric ^a   Delucchi, Kevin ^a,b  

^a Developmental Studies Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom characteristics; Moral development; Prosocial development; Sense of community

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000946065     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02511032     Document Type: Article

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