Improving public school performance through vision-based leadership

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 124-136

  Kantabutra, Sooksan ^a,b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

School performance; Transformational; Vision; Visionary leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646456341     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03026780     Document Type: Article

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