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Leaders have to mediate the values from all these contexts to their colleagues and to their students to make teaching and learning relevant and appropriately differentiated, as Krechevsky and Stork (2000) found, as well as compliant with internal and external policy-makers’ demands. Making choices about values and actions involves leaders and their colleagues in moral decisions about the nature of the learning community they want to construct. It means that values are central to the field of educational administration (Willower, 1992:).

Young female head of Geography) Responsibility for enhancing professional learning helped the middle leaders to project values of setting challenging standards of performance to all students in their 21 22 BECOMING A SUBJECT LEADER area, which were linked to national curriculum age-related levels of performance, and of monitoring carefully the quality of their performance against those standards. CONSTRUCTING PARTICULAR SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENTAL WORKRELATED CULTURES Cultures are social structures (Giddens, 1984), made up of beliefs, values, rituals and ceremonies, and language that help their members and outsiders to sustain particular identities and recognise the boundaries of particular social and institutional entities (Schein, 1992).

Hoyle, E. (1981) ‘Managerial processes in schools, Block 3, E323’, Management and the School, Milton Keynes: Open University. Kazmi, A. (1998) ‘Ethics and professional values in business and industry in India’, Paradigm, 1, 2: 86–93. Krechevsky, M. and Stork, J. (2000) ‘Challenging educational assumptions’, Cambridge Journal of Education, 30, 1: 57–74. Lafleur, C. T. E. Leonard (eds) The Values of Educational Administration, London: Falmer Press. L. (2001) ‘The impact of competence-based management development programme for Chinese managers in Hong Kong’, Doctoral thesis, Leicester: University of Leicester.

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