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In our effort to analyze the situation of China’s primary and middle schools and their principals, it is important to start from the election of a principal. This chapter attempts to answer three questions: What are the general profiles of principals? How are they selected? And what is required of them?
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Project team on the research of theory and practice regarding the training of leading cadres in elementary and middle schools during the 10th Five-Year Plan period in Beijing: Theoretical Study on the Development and Successful Training of Principals, Chongqing University Press, 2005, p. 71.
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Gu, M., Ma, J., Teng, J. (2017). Principal Selection. In: Portraits of Chinese Schools. Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4011-5_12
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