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Much has been written about the positive and negative aspects of teaching in a rural school, but relatively few studies have explored the role of teaching principals (TPs) in small schools. The perception that the principal’s role in small schools is just a ‘scaled down’ version of what is involved in larger schools has been challenged, for example, by Lester (2011).
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Cornish, L., Jenkins, K. (2015). Teaching Principals. In: Graham, L., Miller, J. (eds) Bush Tracks. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-097-0_10
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