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Korea’s ‘education fever’ from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century 韩国从19世纪末到21世纪初的“教育热”

IF 0.5 4区教育学

History of Education Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2022.2098391

Klaus Dittrich, D. Neuhaus

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