A Focus of Dissent? The Social Pressures and Social Constraints Laid Upon the Secondary Headfeacher

Abstract

In this field-study headteachers speak about the pressures on them — in changing contexts of ideas about headshiP and management and from LEAs, governors and patients. The article discusses paradoxes in expectations about school autonomy and professional management.

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