Making sense of place in school-based intervention research

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-130

  Ebersöhn, Liesel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Emancipatory research; High risk schools; Multilingualism; Partnerships; Place; Pluriversality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920267507     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.10.004     Document Type: Article

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