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The increasing focus on the importance of school leadership as an essential driver for the achievement of positive outcomes for state investment in education combined with a view emerging from scholarship that ‘powerful global and international trends are creating leadership contexts that are increasingly alike’ (Dimmock, 2003) provide the broad context for this chapter.
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Ruairc, G.M. (2013). Leading Inclusive Schools. In: Leadership for Inclusive Education. Studies in Inclusive Education, vol 18. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-134-4_7
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