Re-articulating social justice as equity in schooling policy: The effects of testing and data infrastructures

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 710-730

  Lingard, Bob ^a   Sellar, Sam ^a   Savage, Glenn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy; neo social; policy; Programme for International Student Assessment; social justice as equity; topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906535194     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: 14653346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.919846     Document Type: Article

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