Teachers' ethnotheories of the 'ideal student' in five western cultures

Comparative Education

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-135

  Harkness, Sara ^a   Blom, Marjolijn ^a   Oliva, Alfredo ^b   Moscardino, Ughetta ^c   Zylicz, Piotr Olaf ^d   Bermudez, Moises Rios ^b   Feng, Xin ^a   Carrasco Zylicz, Agnieszka ^d   Axia, Giovanna ^c   Super, Charles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT;

BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; POLAND; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847269632     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050060601162438     Document Type: Article

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