Children's peer relationships and social identities: Exploring cases of young children's agency and complex interdependencies from the Minority World

Children's Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 337-346

  Konstantoni, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; belonging; ethnographic; interdependencies; peer relations; social identities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864670353     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2012.693382     Document Type: Article

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