The Palgrave Handbook of Education Law for Schools
This Handbook examines the essential nature of the law within an educational context and asks why there is not greater preparation for this aspect of a teacher’s role. Principals and teachers across the world now work in increasingly uncertain and challen
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The Palgrave Handbook of Education Law for Schools
Karen Trimmer • Roselyn Dixon Yvonne S. Findlay Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of Education Law for Schools
Editors Karen Trimmer Faculty of Business, Law, Education & Arts University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Roselyn Dixon School of Education University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Yvonne S. Findlay Faculty of Business, Law, Education & Arts University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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Preface
Tensions, paradoxes and uncertainty are hallmarks of the operating environments in which professionals undertake their practices. Handy (1994) suggests that such tensions and paradoxes are “endemic” given the complex, uncertain, and turbulent world of constant change in all aspects of contemporary organisations. The education sector has not been immune from such dynamics. Policy makers, decision makers, parents, school leaders, teachers and broad stakeholder and interest groups undertake professional practices, interactions and decision making that is ever growing in terms of complexity of the law. Principals and teachers who are at the core of the delivery of school provision are faced with ever increasing demands on their roles and associated responsibilities as a result (Trimble et al. 2012). It is essential that
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