Teachers' (mis)understandings of resilience

International Education Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 92-102

  Green, Deborah ^a   Oswald, Murray ^a   Spears, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

'At risk'; Non resilience; Resilience; Teachers' attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449085350     PISSN: 14431475     EISSN: 14431475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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