‘Where you stand depends on where you sit’: the social construction of policy enactments in the (English) secondary school

Discourse

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 485-499

  Maguire, Meg ^a   Braun, Annette ^b   Ball, Stephen ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

context; policy actors; policy enactment; policy type; positionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929844524     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2014.977022     Document Type: Article

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