Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 133-145

  Niesche, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deleuze; Foucault; governmentality; school principals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920184889     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793925     Document Type: Article

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