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Drawing widely on evidence from around the world, this book provides recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners seeking a new image of the educational leader: one who secures high levels of achievement for all students in all settings.
The New Image of the Self-Managing School
The New Image of the Self-Managing School
The notion that there is a ‘tipping point’ in social change has been popularised by Malcolm Gladwell (2000). He suggests there are certain ‘rules’ to explain the phenomenon that ‘ideas and products and messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do’ (p. 7), and the tipping point is ‘that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once’ (p. 9). David Hargreaves (2003) employs the same imagery in Education Epidemic to explain how change on the scale of an epidemic may be created in schools. His advocacy of knowledge-based networks as a mechanism to encourage change on this scale was cited in Chapter 5.
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