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This chapter draws on a corpus of academic literature to provide further contextualisation of the study reported in this book. First, a general account is provided of ‘authority types’ and relates them to the context of the Republic of Serbia. This is followed by an outline of leadership approaches congruent with different models of education.
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Raković, J., O’Donoghue, T., Clarke, S. (2019). Overview of Related Academic Literature. In: Leaders and Leadership in Serbian Primary Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03529-7_3
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