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Direct linkGillies, Donald – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
"Excellence" has been a prevalent term in New Labour rhetoric on education, most notably in the stated goal of "excellence for all" in education. Despite that, the meaning of the term has remained imprecise, and the implications of universal excellence unclear. In this paper, three distinct definitions of excellence are…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
