Conceptual and methodological issues in studying school leadership effects as a reciprocal process

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-173

  Hallinger, Philip ^a   Heck, Ronald H ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Leadership; Reciprocal; School improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957902198     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2011.565777     Document Type: Article

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