School transitions in early adolescence: what are we doing to our young people?

Transitions through Adolescence: Interpersonal Domains and Context

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 251-284

  Eccles, Jacquelynne S ^a   Lord, Sarah ^a   Buchanan, Christy Miller ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315789286-10     Document Type: Chapter

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