Numbers in grids of intelligibility: Making sense of how educational truth is told

Educating for the Knowledge Economy?: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 169-191

  Popkewitz, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203817698-19     Document Type: Chapter

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