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Leadership for socially just schooling: more substance and less style in high-risk, low-trust times?
This article argues that radical shifts in school governance arising from wider social, political, and economic relations toward what are described as high-risk and low-trust societies challenge past notions of leadership. I explore the tensions between the pluralism of postmodernist thinking and modernist notions of social justice that produce "predicaments" for school leaders through a series of paradoxes of educational management around centralized decentralization, markets and management, new educational professionalism, parental choice and community participation, and between the substance and style of leadership. The values underpinning the corporatization of public and private life most evident in education do not provide a satisfactory grounding for effective school leadership.
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Journal of school leadershipVolume
12Pagination
198 - 222Publisher
Technomic Pub. Co.Location
Lancaster, Pa.ISSN
1052-6846Language
engNotes
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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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