Policy subjects and policy actors in schools: Some necessary but insufficient analyses

Discourse

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 611-624

  Ball, Stephen J ^a   Maguire, Meg ^b   Braun, Annette ^a   Hoskins, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foucault; Policy actors; Policy work; Subjects; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052863328     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2011.601564     Document Type: Article

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