Looking East: Shanghai, PISA 2009 and the reconstitution of reference societies in the global education policy field

Comparative Education

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 464-485

  Sellar, Sam ^a   Lingard, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; GLOBALIZATION; OECD; POLICY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; ENGLAND; SHANGHAI; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883653761     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: 13600486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2013.770943     Document Type: Article

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