A model of successful school leadership from the international successful school principalship project

Societies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 136-150

  Gurr, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leadership; Middle level leadership; Principal; Successful school leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961625526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc5010136     Document Type: Article

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