Character education: Lessons for Teaching Social and Emotional Competence

Children and Schools

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-78

  Richardson, Rita Coombs ^a   Tolson, Homer ^b   Huang, Tse Yang ^c   Lee, Yi Hsuan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character development; Proactive behavior management; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950737493     PISSN: 15328759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cs/31.2.71     Document Type: Article

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