Passing the buck: This is not teacher leadership!

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 289-301

  Grant, Carolyn ^a   Singh, Hitashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Northlands Primary School   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Authorised; Delegation; Dispersed and democratic distributed leadership; Leadership as practice; Teacher leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449176419     PISSN: 02582236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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