One size fits all: Perceptions of the revised primary curriculum at grades one to three in Jamaica

Research in Comparative and International Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-15

  Roofe, Carmel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Jamaica)

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EID: 84894547714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17454999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2304/rcie.2014.9.1.4     Document Type: Article

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