Parenting policy and the geographies of friendship: Encounters in an english sure start children's centre

Critical geographies of childhood and youth: Contemporary policy and practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 215-229

  Jupp, Eleanor ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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