"It's a balancing act!": Exploring school/work/family interface issues among bilingual, rural Nebraska, paraprofessional educators

Family Relations

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 390-402

  Dalla, Rochelle L ^a   Moulikgupta, Pallabi ^a   Lopez, William E ^a   Jones, Vicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance education; Gender; Hispanic; Immigrant; Rural

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744966126     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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