Transitions into Higher Education: Gendered implications for academic self-concept

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 331-346

  Jackson, Carolyn ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0141483782     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054980307448     Document Type: Article

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