Capability Formation and Education

Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: The Remaking of Education for a Cosmopolitan Society

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 134-151

  Walker, Melanie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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