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Direct linkHemson, Crispin – Perspectives in Education, 2018
This study seeks to understand how a group of boys in a Durban township achieved exceptional educational results despite the severe financial, social and educational constraints they faced. Their high school typified the worst failings of the South African educational system, but they achieved academic success in the matriculation and at…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Males, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
