Instructional Advice and Information Providing and Receiving Behavior in Elementary Schools: Exploring Tie Formation as a Building Block in Social Capital Development

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1112-1145

  Spillane, James P ^a   Kim, Chong Min ^a   Frank, Kenneth A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

formal organization; language arts; mathematics; social capital; social networks; teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869832982     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831212459339     Document Type: Article

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