Reports from the front line: English headteachers' work in an era of practice centralization

Educational Management Administration and Leadership

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-110

  Bottery, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Decision making; Defiance; Headteachers; Portraits

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547115208     PISSN: 17411432     EISSN: 17411440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741143207071384     Document Type: Article

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