Leadership and organization in education: time for a re-orientation?Footnote1

1. This article is a revised and expanded version of a keynote talk given at the Annual Conference of SCRELM, the Standing Conference on Research into Educational Leadership and Management, Hull, UK, 7–8 July 2005.

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