Making the right choices: Ethical judgments among educational leaders

Journal of Educational Administration

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 396-413

  Eyal, Ori ^a   Berkovich, Izhak ^a   Schwartz, Talya ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Educational administration; Ethics; Israel; Justice; Leadership; Professional ethics; Schools; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960334659     PISSN: 09578234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09578231111146470     Document Type: Article

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