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Practicioners' meaning of school leadership: Case studies of Jamaican high school principals
Mairette T. Newman
April 1, 2004
Guided by the symbolic interaction premise that meaning is found in the interaction of individuals within the world, this study set out to describe and analyse how selected high school principals in Jamaica understand and practise school leadership by exploring how they view their circumstances, and how their feelings of leadership are modified by the context of their work.