Vocational education: A clean slate for disengaged students?

Social Science Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 810-825

  Kelly, Sean ^a   Price, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

School effects; Student engagement; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749101957     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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