Learning for All? Interrogating children's experiences of primary schooling in Mauritius

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 785-800

  Griffiths, Michelle ^a  

^a PO Box 385 ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Ability privileging; Developing nations; Learning opportunity; Mauritius; Policy; Primary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034378696     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(00)00025-1     Document Type: Article

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