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Foreword Hong Kong hosted the regional conference of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration in 1992. The term 'regional' was, however, a misnomer. This was a truly INTERNATIONAL conference, symbolizing the international role which Hong Kong has developed. From that conference emerged this book. Readers can judge the extent of the internationalism from the countries of origin of the contributors to this book. Many more than Hong Kong's neighbours around the Pacific Rim nations are represented. Conference participants could feel the internationalism as delegates from developed and developing countries, communist and non-communist, Commonwealth and extra-Commonwealth countries found common ground while still being able to discover new ideas from the different systems of educational leadership. This bringing of the outside world to Hong Kong, engineered so effectively by the Hong Kong Council for Educational Administration (HKCEA), symbolized one of the common themes in educational leadership presented in this book. The outside world is now impacting increasingly on the day-to-day decisions of those leading schools as educational reform programmes bring communities into school directorship. Such community power is significant as more governments create self-managing schools, while recognizing the need for maintained or extended centralized control of curricula. Contributors to this book recognize that such changes need underpinning by appropriate leadership training and by relating developments to national cultures. The national cultures to which the HKCEA's parent body, the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration (CCEA), must relate are numerous and disparate. Many CCEA member countries, x Foreword including Hong Kong, are moving to new allegiances and regional groupings, some of which are outside of the Commonwealth. CCEA welcomes these extensions, as it welcomes this book, as the outcome of its members' initiatives. These initiatives develop further the global community of education leaders and of the CCEA. Angela Thody CCEA President University of Luton England ...

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