Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda: Recent Progress and Future Prospects

Springer International Handbooks of Education

Volumn 17, Issue , 2007, Pages 111-126

  Thrupp, Martin ^a   Lupton, Ruth ^a   Brown, Ceri ^a  

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Author keywords

Compositional Effect; Free School Meal; School Context; School Effectiveness; School Improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85136734813     PISSN: 21971951     EISSN: 2197196X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5747-2_7     Document Type: Chapter

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