Title

Teachers’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Challenges of Incorporating Justice in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms

Journal title

Polish Psychological Bulletin

Yearbook

2021

Volume

vol. 52

Issue

No 3

Authors

Estaji, Masoomeh ; Zhaleh, Kiyana

Affiliation

Estaji, Masoomeh : Department of English Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran ; Zhaleh, Kiyana : Department of English Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Keywords

classroom justice enactment ; classroom injustice behavior ; distributive justice ; EFL teachers ; interactional justice ; procedural justice

Divisions of PAS

Nauki Humanistyczne i Społeczne

Coverage

251-269

Publisher

Committee for Psychological Science PAS

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Date

2021.10.06

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/ppb.2021.137889

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