The colonial image reversed: Language preferences and policy outcomes in African education

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 389-420

  Albaugh, Ericka A ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LANGUAGE; LEADERSHIP; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 66949135790     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2009.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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