School culture and values-related change: Towards a critically pragmatic conceptualisation

Irish Educational Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-27

  Daly, Tom ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Change mediation; Information and communication technology (ICT); Innovation adoption; Moral purpose; Polycultural contestation; School culture; Special educational needs (SEN)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349653418     PISSN: 03323315     EISSN: 17474965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03323310701837822     Document Type: Article

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