Questioning the parental right to educational authority–arguments for a pluralist public education system1

Education Inquiry

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-258

  Englund, Tomas ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

deliberation; educational authority; international conventions on parents rights; parental right; pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855603059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20004508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/edui.v1i3.21944     Document Type: Article

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