Empowering the Primary School Deputy Principal

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Abstract
Michael Harvey is at the Department of Educational Policy and Administrative Studies at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. During an era of school based self-management, he suggests, surprisingly little attention has been given to the role of the deputy principal in the primary school. He reports on a survey undertaken in Western Australia which indicates that many deputy principals lack a significant professional identity. He suggests ways in which this situation might be improved.