School violence and theoretically atypical schools: The principal's centrality in orchestrating safe schools

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 423-461

  Astor, Ron Avi ^a   Benbenishty, Rami ^b   Estrada, Jose Nuñez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Case study; Culture; Mixed method design; School reform; School violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949110791     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831208329598     Document Type: Article

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