Selling the market: Educational standards, discourse and social inequality

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-163

  Collins, James ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Neo liberalism; Teachers' unions; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035534961     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X0102100202     Document Type: Article

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