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The context for educational leadership and management has been pictured throughout this handbook as involving large-scale, if not global, cultural, technological, economic, and political forces for change. Loss of control of the educational agenda by those in schools has been a re-occurring theme. It has been pointed out, for example, that the information age has caused those in schools to lose their privileged access to knowledge and its dissemination and that decentralisation of education systems has seen a tightening of centralised control mechanisms through such devices as high stakes testing, performance management and competency frameworks. In brief, the world of the educational leader is seen as one of increasing change, complexity, diversity, and intensity.
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Mulford, B. (2002). Introduction. 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_35
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