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Does social justice count? ‘Lived democracy’ in mathematics classes in diverse Swedish upper secondary programmes

Carina Hjelmér, +1 more
- 04 Mar 2017 - 
- Vol. 49, Iss: 2, pp 216-234
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In this article, the authors analyzed what students attending four Swedish upper secondary school programs with different social class profiles tried and wanted to influence in relation to mathematics teachers' decision-making process.
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This article analyses what students attending four Swedish upper secondary school programmes with different social class profiles tried and wanted to influence in relation to mathematics teachers' ...

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