Transparency and Opacity: Levinasian Reflections on Accountability in Australian Schooling

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 118-132

  Sellar, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

accountability; Levinas; My School; Other

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920133043     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793924     Document Type: Article

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