Can a school change its spots? The first year of transforming to an innovative school

Journal of Educational Change

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-109

  Tubin, Dorit ^a   Ofek Regev, Noa ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Change; Educational; Elementary school; Innovative schools; Institutional theory; Israel; Leadership; Resource dependence theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953363275     PISSN: 13892843     EISSN: 15731812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10833-008-9100-z     Document Type: Article

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