CHAPTER 5

The additional leadership challenges of different settings

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Figure 5.1 The Additional Leadership Challenges of Different Settings

The field of special education faces deep changes in relation to its thinking and practices.

(Mel Ainscow in ‘Developing inclusive schools: implications for leadership’ – NCSL essay, May 2000)

At the outset of this chapter it must be recognised that the additional leadership challenges that will be outlined are drawn from the views of a small, but select, group of successful SEN leaders. It is clear to anyone who has worked in a number of different SEN settings that context is everything and that there ...

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