‘Life’ and education policy: intervention, augmentation and computation

Discourse

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 276-291

  Gulson, Kalervo N ^a   Webb, P Taylor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

biopolitics; computation; Education policy; life sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032827567     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1396729     Document Type: Article

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