Making 'right' choices? An ethnographic account of creativity, performativity and personalised learning policy, concepts and practices

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 689-704

  Beach, Dennis ^a   Dovemark, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

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EID: 77952836453     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054980903122267     Document Type: Article

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