A systematic review of educational leadership and management research in Turkey: Content analysis of topics, conceptual models, and methods

Journal of Educational Administration

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 731-747

  Bellibaş, Mehmet Şükrü ^a   Gümüş, Sedat ^b  

^a ADIYAMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Educational administration; Educational leadership; Organizational behaviour; Research design; Systematic review; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071114931     PISSN: 09578234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JEA-01-2019-0004     Document Type: Article

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