Towards 'thick description' of educational transfer: Understanding a Japanese institution's 'import' of European language policy

Comparative Education

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 411-432

  Rappleye, Jeremy ^a   Imoto, Yuki ^b   Horiguchi, Sachiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LANGUAGE;

JAPAN;

EID: 84860768870     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2011.559698     Document Type: Article

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