School subjects as social categorisations

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-25

  Räty, Hannu ^a   Kasanen, Kati ^a   Kärkkäinen, Riitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Causal attributions; Educability; Gender and educational differences; Parental perceptions; School subjects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645516147     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-005-2439-6     Document Type: Article

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