Making Right Choices: an Ethnographic Investigation of Creativity and Performativity in Four Swedish Schools

This article uses ethnographic research from two Year 8 classes in two middle-sized secondary schools about a kilometre apart in a Swedish west-coast town to examine how new policies for personalis ...

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