Learning or earning in the 'smart state': Changing tactics for governing early childhood

Childhood

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 535-551

  Ailwood, Jo ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Governmentality; Lifelong learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649218659     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208097206     Document Type: Article

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