Collaborative decision-making and school-based management: Challenges, rhetoric and reality

Journal of Educational Enquiry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-24

  Cranston, Neil C ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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EID: 4043134372     PISSN: 14445530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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