Among the many challenges faced by educational systems in the 21st century, leadership succession is universally recognised as being a major concern. Rather than retain the current paradigm of a single figure at the top of the school hierarchy, leading researchers Patrick Duignan and Helen Cannon argue the case for a more inclusive, collaborative and distributed leadership. They offer a series of alternative models, and gather views from existing principals to demonstrate what might be possible, what might work better than the model
followed today.
