An excavation of the racialised politics of viability underpinning education policy in Ireland

Irish Educational Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-229

  Kitching, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anti racism; Education; Integration; Language support; Racialisation; Viability; White irishness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956256295     PISSN: 03323315     EISSN: 17474965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2010.498278     Document Type: Article

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