'You'd be good at that': Gender patterns in parent-child talk about courses

Social Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 447-463

  Tenenbaum, Harriet R ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achievement; Gender; Parent child conversations

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249194061     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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