Research Article
Power, Knowledge, and the Rationalization of Teaching: A Genealogy of the Movement to Professionalize Teaching
David Labaree
Harvard Educational Review July 1992, 62 (2) 123-155; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.62.2.h73x7422v3166102

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