Maybe I can fly: Nurturing personal and collective learning in professional learning communities

Pastoral Care in Education

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-323

  Leach, Tony ^a  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Learning communities; Psychological contracting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014973026     PISSN: 02643944     EISSN: 14680122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643940903349328     Document Type: Article

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