Internal marketisation and teachers defending their educational setting–Accounting and mobilisation in Swedish upper secondary education

Education Inquiry

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 619-636

  Henning Loeb, Ingrid ^a   Lumsden Wass, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

accounting; internal marketisation; mobilisation; performance management; plot; teacher professionalism; upper secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978742905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20004508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/edui.v2i4.22003     Document Type: Article

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