14th ENIRDEM Conference                                                                                                 3
22-25 September 2005, Brno & Telč, the Czech Republic
Contents
Acknowledgements.............................................................................................................      5
Editorial ..............................................................................................................................      7
Dealing with diversity: education's challenge in creating human solidarity.......................    11
David Oldroyd
Dealing with diversity: a key values issue for educational management ............................    19
Anne Gold
Philosophical thinking as a precondition for dealing with diversity ...................................    31
leva Rocena
Equity and school leadership ...........................i..................................................................    37
Anita Trnavčevič and Paul Mahieu
Counteracting adversity in an aspect of diversity: identifying characteristics of very effective primary schools in socio-economically disadvantaged contexts and their
associated lessons, caveats and questions for school leaders ..............................................    51
Chris James, Michael Connolly, Gerald Dunning and Tony Elliott
A model of school culture development .............................................................................    61
Lenka Hloušková
Building capacity in schools — dealing with diversity between schools............................    65
Eric Verbiest and Justina Erčulj
On the challenge of diversity: case studies of headteachers and school quality
management........................................................................................................................    81
Milan Pol and Petr Novotný
Headteachers' coping strategies — how to survive leading a school..................................    97
Anne Karikoski
The headteacher's role in the organisation of work with pupils with special needs............ 107
Agris Upenieks
Motivation in late-career teachers....................................................................................... 113
Bohumíra Lazarová
Building partnerships — school and family — as an important factor in managing
diversity in school............................................................................................................... 125
Ilze Ivanova
Diversity — one of the challenges for school self-evaluation............................................. 133
Jana Vašťatková