‘Cooling out the marks’: the ideology and politics of vocational education in an age of austerity

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 221-236

  Leach, Tony ^a  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

austerity; career transitions; Erving Goffman; ideological fantasy; psychological contracts; vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025091633     PISSN: 13596748     EISSN: 17475112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13596748.2017.1314681     Document Type: Article

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