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Wallace, Mike; Tomlinson, Michael; O'Reilly, Dermot – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Among western governments large-scale leadership development initiatives represent an increasingly deployed means of promoting the acculturation of school leaders to support educational reforms and ongoing improvement. England's sophisticated initiative centres on the National College for Leadership in Schools and Children's Services, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Government School Relationship
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Hoyle, Eric; Wallace, Mike – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
This article adopts "irony" as a frame for understanding some of the consequences of the reform movement in the UK. A distinction is drawn between the ironies that are endemic in all organizations and rooted in ambiguities and dilemmas, and the ironies that specifically flow from the disjunction between central policies and the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy