The ordinary school - what is it?

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Maguire, Meg ^a   Perryman, Jane ^a   Ball, Stephen ^a   Braun, Annette ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fabrication; Ordinary schools; Performativity; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751624349     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: 14653346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2011.527718     Document Type: Article

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