Educational Equity in Poor Urban Contexts - Exploring Issues of Place/Space and Young People's Identity and Agency

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Raffo, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

equity; identity; place space; urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858132072     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: 14678527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2010.520669     Document Type: Article

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