Education policy as numbers: Data categories and two Australian cases of misrecognition

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-333

  Lingard, Bob ^a   Creagh, Sue ^a   Vass, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

'gap talk'; education policy; misrecognition; technologies of governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861210673     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2011.605476     Document Type: Article

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