What do they really want? Student voices and motivation research

Urban Education

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-59

  Daniels, Erika ^a   Arapostathis, Mark ^b  

^a Oceanside Unified School District   (United States)

^b La Mesa Spring Valley Sch District   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk; Interest; Motivation; Relationships; Relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944425437     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085904270421     Document Type: Article

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