Teachers as Agents of Change: Teacher Agency and Emerging Models of Curriculum

Reinventing the Curriculum: New Trends in Curriculum Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 187-206

  Priestley, Mark ^a   Biesta, Gert ^b   Robinson, Sarah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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