Trust me: Your school can be better-a message from teachers to Principals

Educational Management Administration and Leadership

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-348

  Ghamrawi, Norma ^a  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

administration; leadership; management; schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955391853     PISSN: 17411432     EISSN: 17411440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741143210393997     Document Type: Article

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