Distributed leadership for integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools

ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1204-1214

  Tan, Seng Chee ^a,b   Aloysius, Ong Kian Keong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership; Luhmann's system theory; School technology leadership

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SCALE; DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; SINGAPORE; TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION; TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP; TOPDOWN;

INTEGRATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEM THEORY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84870792913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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