A contextual understanding of the process of educational resilience: High achieving Dominican American students and the "resilience cycle"

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-22

  Morales, Erik E ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 25444437384     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007580217973     Document Type: Article

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