Understanding students' classroom justice experiences and responses

Communication Education

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-474

  Horan, Sean M ^a   Chory, Rebecca M ^b   Goodboy, Alan K ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom justice; Dissent; Equity theory; Organizational justice; Students' behaviors; Students' emotions; Unfairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956967993     PISSN: 03634523     EISSN: 14795795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2010.487282     Document Type: Article

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