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Part I: Conceptualizing turbulence, empowerment and marginalisation -- Turbulence, empowerment and marginalised groups -- Literature review - turbulence in education governance systems -- Epistemological underpinnings and methodologies for researching marginalised groups in international educational governance systems -- Part II: Five international cases of turbulence, empowerment, and marginalisation -- the turbulence Black, Asian, minority ethnicity chief executive officers of small, medium and empty MATs face in England's education system; the structures -- the turbulence black, Asian, minority ethnicity chief executive officers of small, medium and empty MATs face in England's education system; the agency -- Empowering school principals to overcome turbulence in school partnerships through governance systems for equity, renewal and peace: Northern Ireland -- Supervisors in the Arab education system: between governability, duality and empowerment, through a state of turbulence -- Turbulence in efforts at curriculum renewal for educational equity: a critical analysis of a primary curriculum review exercise in Trinidad and Tobago -- Empowering superintendents in the United States to empower societal innovators for equity and renewal in the community -- Part III: Turbulence, empowerment and marginalisation: knowledge to action -- Turbulence, empowerment, and marginalised groups: a comparative analysis of five international education governance systems -- Conclusions: turbulence, empowerment and marginalised groups -- About the contributors -- Appendix 1 sample invitation letter to interview to the researched.

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