The aporia of education policy: national school reform and the limits of policy enactment.
In this paper, we deploy the concept of aporia to consider the ways in which enactments of policy become 'stuck' as policy flows between national and sub-national education systems. We illustrate the overlapping political, governmental and bureaucratic spheres of influence that mediate how national...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 179 - 194 |
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