The uses of the national PISA results by Finnish officials in central government

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 539-556

  Rautalin, Marjaana ^a   Alasuutari, Pertti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Discourse and rhetorical analysis; Finnish central government officials; Finnish education policy; Global governance; OECD; PISA Study

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449625259     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680930903131267     Document Type: Article

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