Religion and attitudes of college preservice teachers toward students with disabilities: Implications for higher education

Higher Education

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 703-717

  Leyser, Yona ^b   Romi, Shlomo ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Disabilities; Higher education; Inclusion; Pre service teachers; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449128868     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-007-9084-2     Document Type: Article

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