A feel for numbers: affect, data and education policy

Critical Studies in Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 131-146

  Sellar, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

affect; commensuration; data; education policy; PISA; topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922468717     PISSN: 17508487     EISSN: 17508495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.981198     Document Type: Article

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