Assembling and Dissembling: Policy as Productive Play

Educational Researcher

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 157-162

  Koyama, Jill P ^a   Varenne, Hervé ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropology; cultural analysis; educational policy; ethnography; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862597801     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12442799     Document Type: Article

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