Breaking the consensus: Lifelong learning as social control

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 479-499

  Coffield, Frank ^a  

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EID: 0033192423     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141192990250405     Document Type: Article

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