Poverty and the ideological imperative: a call to unhook from deficit and grit ideology and to strive for structural ideology in teacher education

Journal of Education for Teaching

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 378-386

  Gorski, Paul C ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement gap; educational equity; grit; Poverty; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983379484     PISSN: 02607476     EISSN: 13600540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02607476.2016.1215546     Document Type: Article

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