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Scenarios for Leadership and the Public Good in Education

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Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration

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Reaching a new settlement on the nature of public education may be the defining project for education in the early years of the twenty-first century. The central issue is the role of government and the concept of ‘public good’. For more than a century, public education has been synonymous with public control, public funding, public ownership and public delivery, with ‘public’ represented by ‘government’ in this prescription. It is clear, however, that this view is under challenge, especially in Britain, where support services and even some schools have been privatized in several authorities, and in the United States, where momentum is building in the debate on ‘schools-for-profit’.

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    Brian J. Caldwell

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  1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

    Kenneth Leithwood

  2. College of Management, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Philip Hallinger

  3. Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA

    Gail C. Furman

  4. Institute of Education, University of London, UK

    Kathryn Riley

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  6. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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  7. University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

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Caldwell, B.J. (2002). Scenarios for Leadership and the Public Good in Education. In: Leithwood, K., et al. Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0375-9_28

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