Context-responsive leadership: Examining superintendent leadership in context;Liderança responsiva ao contexto: Exame da liderança de diretores no contexto

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bredeson, Paul V ^a   Klar, Hans W ^b   Johansson, Olof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Context; Cross national; Interview study; Leadership; Superintendent

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960674885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v19n18.2011     Document Type: Article

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