A problem of democracy: Stereotypical notions of intelligence and identity in college preparatory academic porgrammes in the Swedish upper secondary school

Nordic Studies in Education

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-62

  Jonsson, Anna Carin ^a   Beach, Dennis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Implicit intelligence theory; Qualitative analysis; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880218020     PISSN: 18915914     EISSN: 18915949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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