Secondary school principals in curriculum reform: Victims or accomplices?

Frontiers of Education in China

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 388-403

  Walker, Allan ^a   Qian, Haiyan ^a,b   Zhang, Shuang ^a  

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

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

accountability; curriculum reform; reform implementation; school principalship

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051939157     PISSN: 1673341X     EISSN: 16733533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11516-011-0138-y     Document Type: Article

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