Qualitative research as policy knowledge: Framing policy problems and transforming education from the ground up;La investigación cualitativa como conocimiento político: Enmarcando problemas de política y de transformación de la educación desde la base

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Dumas, Michael J ^a   Anderson, Gary ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational policy; Politics of education; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894312778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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