Discourses of aspiration, opportunity and attainment: Promoting and contesting the academy schools programme

Children's Geographies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-61

  Purcell, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academies; Aspirations; Discourse; Education geographies; Scale; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751471575     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2011.540439     Document Type: Article

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