Improving school governance through participative democracy and the law

South African Journal of Education

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-73

  Smit, Marius H ^a   Oosthuizen, Izak J ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Accountability; Deliberative democracy; Participation; School governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955518375     PISSN: 02560100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15700/saje.v31n1a415     Document Type: Article

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