Politics of externalization in reflexive times: Reinventing Japanese education reform discourses through "finnish pisa success"

Comparative Education Review

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-75

  Takayama, Keita ^a  

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EID: 75649143279     PISSN: 00104086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/644838     Document Type: Article

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