Equity, democracy, and neoliberal assaults on teacher education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1947-1957

  Sleeter, Christine ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Diversity; Neoliberalism; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849129900     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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