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Special issue: International policy borrowing and evidence-based educational policy making: relationships and tensions

‘Educare’ in Australia: analysing policy mobility and transformation

Pages 179-194 | Received 02 Jul 2015, Accepted 07 Mar 2016, Published online: 13 Apr 2016

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