Education policy as a practice of power: Theoretical tools, ethnographic methods, democratic options

Educational Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 767-795

  Levinson, Bradley A U ^a   Sutton, Margaret ^a   Winstead, Teresa ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Education policy; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350539025     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904808320676     Document Type: Article

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