Educational governance, school autonomy, and curriculum implementation: Diversity and uniformity in knowledge offerings to Israeli pupils

Journal of Curriculum Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-92

  Resh, Nura ^a   Benavot, Aaron ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Curricular diversification; Curriculum; Curriculum implementation; Israel; Israeli Arab schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 60549091941     PISSN: 00220272     EISSN: 13665839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220270802446826     Document Type: Article

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