Too much of a good thing? gender, 'concerted cultivation' and unequal achievement in primary education

Child Indicators Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-178

  McCoy, Selina ^a   Byrne, Delma ^b   Banks, Joanne ^a  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Concerted cultivation; Gender; Mathematics performance; Reading performance; School engagement; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861507985     PISSN: 1874897X     EISSN: 18748988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-011-9118-2     Document Type: Article

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