School Leaders Leading: Professional Responsibility Not Accountability as the Key Focus

Educational Management Administration and Leadership

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 129-142

  Cranston, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

accountability and school leadership; conceptualizing school leadership; educational leadership; professional responsibility; school leadership; school leadership professionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874571803     PISSN: 17411432     EISSN: 17411440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741143212468348     Document Type: Article

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