Sustainable school capacity building – one step back, two steps forward?

Journal of Educational Administration

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 616-623

  Dinham, Stephen ^a   Crowther, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Educational change; International trends; Leadership; School capacity building; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053302992     PISSN: 09578234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09578231111186926     Document Type: Review

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