Teacher leadership enactment in professional learning community contexts: Towards a better understanding of the phenomenon

School Leadership and Management

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 163-182

  Hairon, Salleh ^a   Goh, Jonathan Wee Pin ^a   Chua, Catherine Siew Kheng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

PLCs; Teacher leadership; Teacher learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937073967     PISSN: 13632434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2014.992776     Document Type: Article

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