Can Academic Freedom be Justified Reflections on the Arguments of Robert Post and Stanley Fish

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 108-126

  Hammersley, Martyn ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84958063778     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12086     Document Type: Article

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