Adding complexity: Philosophical perspectives on the relationship between evidence and policy

Teachers College Record

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 376-402

  Phillips, Denis C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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