Not a Waste of Time: Scheduling Non-academic Learning Activities Into the School Day

Urban Review

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-44

  Finnan, Christine ^a  

^a School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Non academic learning; Social learning; Urban elementary schools; Yoga practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939876835     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-014-0286-5     Document Type: Article

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