Hitting, missing, and in between: A typology of the impact of western education on the non-western world

Comparative Education

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-186

  Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; LABOR MARKET; LITERACY; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 33847254321     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050060601162719     Document Type: Article

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