The new business studies and the transformation of the business curriculum: Some observations on ideology, enterprise culture and the production of vocational identities

Curriculum Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-401

  Jordan, Steven ^a   Yeomans, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84859324195     PISSN: 09659757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681369800200042     Document Type: Article

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