The gender gap and classroom interactions: Reality and rhetoric?

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-341

  Younger, Michael ^a   Warrington, Molly ^b   Williams, Jacquetta ^b  

^a HOMERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033196575     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01425699995290     Document Type: Article

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