Twelve years of upper-secondary education in Sweden: The beginnings of a neo-liberal policy hegemony?

Educational Review

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-327

  Beach, Dennis ^a   Dovemark, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Learner identities; Policy changes; Social class; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052288837     PISSN: 00131911     EISSN: 14653397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2011.560249     Document Type: Article

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