Teachers facing school failure: The social valorization of effort in the school context

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-53

  Matteucci, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Causal attribution; Classroom interventions; Intelligence; Judgment of responsibility; Social representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947514113     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-006-9011-x     Document Type: Article

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