Teacher resilience: Theorizing resilience and poverty

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 568-594

  Ebersöhn, Liesel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

adaptive coping processes; high risk schools; poverty; supportive schools; teacher resilience; teacher traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908004581     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2014.937960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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