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 ... 37 - Anita Tmavcevic 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 Erculj // 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 Vaštatková