Winning to Learn, Learning to Win: Evaluative Frames and Practices in Urban Debate

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-26

  Asad, Asad L ^a   Bell, Monica C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Education; Evaluation; Inequality; Policy debate; Urban sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891895547     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-013-9269-1     Document Type: Article

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