Improving Schools in Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances: Tales from the Frontline

Improving Schools in Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances: Tales from the Frontline

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-158

  Harris, Alma ^a   Gunraj, Judith ^c   James, Sue ^c   Clarke, Paul ^b   Harris, Belinda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Leeds Metropolitan University ^*

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