Sweden: Centralisation and decentralisation as implementation strategies

Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership: Is there a Nordic Model?

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 73-85

  Holmgren, Mikael ^a   Johansson, Olof ^b   Nihlfors, Elisabet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84886060321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6226-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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