What characteristics and processes define a school as a learning organisation? Is this a useful concept to apply to schools?

International Education Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-32

  Silins, Halia ^a   Zarins, Silja ^a   Mulford, Bill ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Organisational learning; Secondary Schools as learning organisations; Teacher and principal survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042943896     PISSN: 14431475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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