How middle-class parents help their children obtain an advantaged qualification: A study of strategies of teachers and managers for their children's education in Hong Kong before the 1997 Handover

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Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Wong, Yi Lee ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspirations; Education; Hong kong; Middle class; Resources; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349044152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
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