Emergence of the Politics of Education Field: Making Sense of the Messy Center

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 10-40

  Scribner, Jay D ^a   Aleman, Enrique ^a   Maxcy, Brendan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Culturalism; Micropolitics; Neoinstitutionalism; Political culture; Politics in education; Politics of education; Rationalism; School governance; Structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342481153     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X02239759     Document Type: Review

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