Researching the implementation of educational policy: A backward mapping approach

Comparative Education

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-61

  Dyer, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; PLANNING PROCESS; POLICY MAKING;

INDIA;

EID: 0033056398     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050069928062     Document Type: Article

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