Obama and the 'Arab Spring': Desire, hope and the manufacture of disappointment. Implications for a transformative pedagogy

Discourse

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 377-396

  Roberts, Lorna ^a   Schostak, John ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

democracy; hope; Obama; public pedagogy; social justice; transformative pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863509349     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2012.681898     Document Type: Article

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