Planning for the future: Changing education expectations in three british cohorts

Historical Social Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-119

  Schoon, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education expectations; Gender; School motivation; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953495701     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: 09366784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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