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Leadership: Enabling Leadership in the Teaching and Learning of History in Higher Education

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This chapter considers the importance of leadership in creating an environment in which history teaching can flourish and evolve. It argues that ‘enabling leadership ’ is a way to support individual and collegial endeavour that reinvigorates professional commitment within the context of the managerial revolution.

Leadership matters

Alan Booth

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  1. University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    Adele Nye

  2. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    Jennifer Clark

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    Adele Nye

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Nye, A., Clark, J. (2018). Leadership: Enabling Leadership in the Teaching and Learning of History in Higher Education. In: Clark, J., Nye, A. (eds) Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0047-9_9

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