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Kearney, Chris – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
There is a tendency in academic literature concerning children from diverse social and linguistic background to concentrate on failure within the school system. It is only in recent years that this is beginning to change. In this article the author argues that if we are to motivate children towards success we need to have a clear picture of the…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Self Concept, Student Diversity, Foreign Countries