Dealing with school violence: The effect of school violence prevention training on teachers' perceived self-efficacy in dealing with violent events

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1061-1066

  Sela Shayovitz, Revital ^a,b  

^a The David Yellin College of Education   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

School violence; Teachers' self efficacy; Violence prevention training

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349208959     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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