Organisational transition challenges in the Finnish vocational education - perspective of distributed pedagogical leadership

Educational Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-50

  Jäppinen, Aini Kristiina ^a   Maunonen Eskelinen, Irmeli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b JAMK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

distributed leadership; organisational challenges; pedagogical collaboration; student transition; vocational education and training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858657794     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: 14653400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03055698.2011.567024     Document Type: Article

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