Headship is widely acknowledged
to be a crucial variable in
determining the nature and quality of
schools. As might be expected, there
are numerous studies of headship.
In this article Peter Ribbins, Reader
in Educational Management at the
University of Birmingham, and
Brian Sherratt, Head of Great Barr
Comprehensive School in
Birmingham, report on a new
approach to the study of headship
in which they have been involved
together; an approach which they
describe as a dialectic of biography
and autobiography.
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