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Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda: Recent Progress and Future Prospects

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International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement

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  1. Martin Thrupp
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  2. Ruth Lupton
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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A.

    Tony Townsend

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Thrupp, M., Lupton, R., Brown, C. (2007). Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda: Recent Progress and Future Prospects. In: Townsend, T. (eds) International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5747-2_7

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