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Re-thinking Education Business Leadership and Its Purposes

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Global free market neoliberalism has spurred widespread change in education’s purposes, policies, and practices, with concomitant repercussions for school business. As a consequence, school business demands and accountabilities continue to escalate in scope and complexity, while governments, education authorities, and school communities increasingly appreciate the importance of specialist business leadership in schools. This chapter documents the work, impact, subsequent rise, and rapid professionalization of school business leaders as pervasive policy imperatives continue to influence school business priorities, before discussing issues in this field that are looming across the developed world. Finally, the chapter proposes some foundational evocations for future developments and research in this emerging area of education leadership.

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    Karen Starr

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    Fenwick W. English

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Starr, K. (2022). Re-thinking Education Business Leadership and Its Purposes. In: English, F.W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99097-8_44

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