Democracy in schools: Are educators ready for teacher Leadership?

South African Journal of Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 574-589

  de Villiers, Elsabé ^a   Pretorius, S G ^b  

^a Educational Psychologist at St Augustine's School   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership; Educators' assumptions; Educators' perceptions; Educators' readiness; Parallel leadership; Professional development; Teacher leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857840799     PISSN: 02560100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15700/saje.v31n4a453     Document Type: Article

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