Developing educational leaders: A partnership between two universities to bring about system-wide change

South African Journal of Education

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Naicker, Suraiya R ^a   Mestry, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Educational leadership; Intervention; Leadership development; Partnership; Principal; School district; System wide change; Systemic change; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930469936     PISSN: 02560100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15700/saje.v35n2a1085     Document Type: Article

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