@article{Mentini_2023, title={Enacting accountability reforms in Brazil: the mediating role of school leadership}, volume={18}, url={https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/20774}, DOI={10.5212/PraxEduc.v.18.20774.006}, abstractNote={<p>This article aims to analyse the role of school leaders in mediating education accountability policies in Brazil. The study is framed by a sense-making and contingent leadership framework and is guided by a ‘realist evaluation’ methodological approach. The qualitative research conducted in four schools in Belo Horizonte shows that school leaders play a substantial role in mediating how school accountability reforms are received. They enact different roles, behaviours and practices, shaped by the sense-making and perception of accountability reforms and dependent upon three main contingent factors: leaders’ positional power and gender, socio-economic school composition and schools’ administrative dependency.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> School leadership. Brazil. Test-based accountability policy.</p>}, journal={Práxis Educativa}, author={Mentini, Laura}, year={2023}, month={jan.}, pages={1–21} }