Friendly Habitat, Endangered Species: Ecological Theory and the Demise of a High School Mandarin Program

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 395-420

  Shouse, Roger C ^a   Sun, Jinai ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; ecology theory; organization theory; politics; school boards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879776085     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X12462386     Document Type: Article

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