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Leadership and New Public Management: The Forgotten Professional Dimension of School Organizations

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The notion of school leadership is far from being stabilized and, beyond its global dissemination, its realization varies according to policies and local contexts. There is a large agreement for assuming that this English-speaking paradigm, carried by International Organizations, faces different cultural and institutional traditions in Europe as well as in Latin America, and that leading school organizations cannot be reduced to neo-managerial perspectives. However, leadership remains a heuristic concept to reflect on the emergence of new roles and responsibilities between principals and teachers at school level.

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Normand, R. (2018). Leadership and New Public Management: The Forgotten Professional Dimension of School Organizations. In: Normand, R., Liu, M., Carvalho, L., Oliveira, D., LeVasseur, L. (eds) Education Policies and the Restructuring of the Educational Profession. Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8279-5_15

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