The repudiation of single-sex education: Boys' schools in the soviet union, 1943-1954

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 621-650

  Ewing, E Thomas ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boys at school; Coeducational schooling; Comparative education; History of education; Masculinity; Modern Russian education; Single sex schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845776692     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00028312043004621     Document Type: Review

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