Leadership is a much-lauded educational trait. Former headteacher at Crieff, McLaren High and Lornshill, and a driving force behind the Scottish Qualification for Headship, Danny Murphy, has thoroughly credible leadership credentials. Given its powerful insights gained over a dedicated professional lifetime, it would be reassuring if his newly republished and significantly revised Professional School Leadership: Dealing with Dilemmas (Dunedin) were to be taken to heart by the official leaders of Scottish education.
It insists that there are no easy fixes to the daily problems educationalists face. Every school is unique, operating within a complex, pluralist society in which conflicting pressures push school leaders in contradictory directions.
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