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Bester, Garfield; Kuyper, Nadine – Africa Education Review, 2020
Resilience can be viewed as successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances (e.g. poverty). This article reports on an investigation of which the primary aim was to establish how additional educational support enhances adolescents' resilience and academic performance. A quantitative approach was followed using two schools.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Middle Class
Blumenfeld, Phyllis C.; And Others – 1982
The development of social cognitions about classroom life and their potential influence on children's classroom behavior were studied. Each of 360 first and fifth grade children from schools in middle class and working class neighborhoods were interviewed using booklets illustrating classroom behavior. The results indicated that children do…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement