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Locating Governmentality in the Spread of Educational Leadership

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Over the past 25 years or so, global trends such as site-based management, decentralization, and, more recently, accountability, have brought increasing attention to the school leadership sector. Previously, the focus of national improvement efforts and the interests of international development were located in the teaching sector and/or the structural aspects of schooling (i.e. student enrollments, provision of books, etc.).

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Magno, C. (2015). Locating Governmentality in the Spread of Educational Leadership. In: Kotthoff, HG., Klerides, E. (eds) Governing Educational Spaces. CESE. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-265-3_4

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