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A1 Al-Smadi, Rana T. A2 Abu Qudais, Mahmoud A2 Al-Omari, Aieman Ahmad AB The purpose of this study is to identify the role of Jordanian schools' leadership in transforming their schools into an organizational learning culture by highlighting the importance and goals of adopting an Organizational Learning Approach in a school setting. The study also intends to examine in depth and define the role of school leaders in making changes in school personnel's perceptions of their organizations as a professional learning culture. The study suggests that Jordanian schools' leadership practices organizational learning characteristics in a manner that facilitates the transformation of schools into serious organizational learning cultures. Furthermore, the results indicate that there were no significant differences in school leaders' practices of organizational learning characteristics and the proposed demographics of teachers, except in gender variable. (Published abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif ID 021373 OP pp. 13-23 T1 Role of Jordanian schools' leadership in transforming schools into organizational learning culture [Article]