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The International School: Taking Stock of a World ‘Commodity’—Leadership and Management

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The first study, The International School: Taking Stock of a World ‘Commodity’, examines what constitutes an international school and how international schools differ significantly from national schools in three major respects: diversity both at the micro and macro level; transience of students, staff, administrators and boards; and governance with a lack of accountability to a higher authority such as a local and/or other government office (Hayden, Introduction to international education: International schools and their communities, Sage, 2006). I go on to examine each of these aspects in greater detail, and the emotional consequences of these for international schools.

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Blyth, C. (2017). The International School: Taking Stock of a World ‘Commodity’—Leadership and Management. In: International Schools, Teaching and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46783-2_3

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