Student attitudes toward social studies and other school subjects

Curriculum Perspectives

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 39-47

  Moroz, Wally ^a   Baker, Robert G ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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