Prediction, control and the challenge to complexity

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 505-520

  Radford, Mike ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 51849127056     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054980701772636     Document Type: Article

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