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What is an appropriate structure for reporting a study of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) PISA for Schools test, following a broadly post-structural, interpretivist paradigm, and adopting a ‘toolbox’ policy sociology methodology?
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Lewis, S. (2018). Understanding New Spaces and Relations of Global Governance in Education: The OECD’s PISA for Schools. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_35
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