An Activity Theoretical Approach Towards Distributed Leadership for One-to-One Computing in a Singapore Elementary School

Adopting the sociocultural Activity Theoretical perspective, this ethnographic case study examined how distributed leadership supported one-to-one computing implementation in an elementary school under the FutureSchools@Singapore programme.

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