Teacher Agency in Curriculum Making: Agents of Change and Spaces for Manoeuvre

Curriculum Inquiry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-214

  Priestley, Mark ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a   Priestley, Andrea ^a   Miller, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84858825167     PISSN: 03626784     EISSN: 1467873X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-873X.2012.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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