What makes children behave aggressively? The inner logic of Dutch children in special education

European Journal of Special Needs Education

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-20

  Visser, Marieke ^a   Singer, Elly ^b   van Geert, Paul L C ^a   Kunnen, Saskia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Children; Inner logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 59049088813     PISSN: 08856257     EISSN: 1469591X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08856250802596717     Document Type: Article

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