Strategic factors and barriers for promoting educational organizational learning

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 478-502

  Garcia Morales V J ^a   Lopez Martin F J ^a   Llamas Sanchez R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Educational centres; Educational organizational learning; Learning barriers; Performance; Personal mastery; Shared vision; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645942748     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2005.11.012     Document Type: Article

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