Parent empowerment and teacher professionalism: Teachers' perspective

Urban Education

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 394-415

  Addi Raccah, Audrey ^a   Arviv Elyashiv, Rinate ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Parental involvement; Professionalism; School decentralization; Teacher empowerment

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449117253     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085907305037     Document Type: Article

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