Conceptualizing educational leadership: Does exploring macro-level facets matters?

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-150

  Sinha, Chetan ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Education system; Educational leadership; Principals; School management; School system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879260264     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12564-012-9239-4     Document Type: Article

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