Low-Income Adolescents' Perceptions of School, Intelligence, and Themselves as Students.

Brantlinger, Ellen

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Publication Date: 1990

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Low-Income Adolescents' Perceptions of School, Intelligence, and Themselves as Students.

Brantlinger, Ellen

Curriculum Inquiry, v20 n3 p305-24 Fall 1990

Forty low-income teenagers were interviewed regarding their own, their peers', and their parents' attitudes toward school, school purpose, and the importance of intelligence. Adolescents echoed the general public's views concerning poor school performance, internalized the negative messages received at school, and blamed themselves, not the system, for school failure. Includes 57 references. (MLH)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Intelligence, Low Income Groups, Parent Attitudes, Secondary Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Attitudes

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Language: English

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