THE AMBIVALENCE OF POSTCOLONIAL MAURITIUS: Policy versus practice in education: A reading of official and popular multiculturalism

International Journal of Cultural Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 307-323

  Aumeerally, N L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

decolonisation; education; ethnographic research; multiculturalism policy; popular culture; resistive cultural practices of Mauritian students

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044885292     PISSN: 10286632     EISSN: 14772833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028663042000312543     Document Type: Article

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