Aaron Benavot, Yun-Kyung Cha, David Kamens, John W. Meyer, Suk-Ying Wong, Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Curricula, 1920-1986, American Sociological Review, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 85-100
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