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The (Im)possibility of ‘leadership’

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Educational Leadership Relationally

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The epistemological vigilance argued for in the previous chapter establishes a rationale to problematize, or at least engage with, the contemporarily popular labels of any given disciplinary space.

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Eacott, S. (2015). The (Im)possibility of ‘leadership’. In: Educational Leadership Relationally. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-911-1_3

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