ABSTRACT
In the re-designed, learning-centred school, leadership and management play vital roles in creating, maintaining and developing quality curricula, teaching and learning for all students. This chapter first emphasizes the part played by the backward-mapping and iterative process in identifying the key characteristics of leadership in the re-designed, learning-centred school. Second, it discusses each of the characteristics in turn. Finally, it outlines a cross-cultural perspective of leadership and raises issues relating to cultural differences in the way leadership is exercised.
