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This article reports on the third phase of a larger study that explored the perceptions of teachers about distributed leadership practices for inclusive education (IE) in primary schools involved in IE reform in Bangladesh. TheDistributed Leadership Practice for Inclusive Educationscale was developed specifically for this study to collect data. Participants for the present study were head teachers and teachers from 308 public primary schools. The results of this study indicate that teachers perceived that distributed leadership practices for IE were present in primary schools in Bangladesh. The findings indicate that teachers' perceptions about distributed leadership practices for IE have a significant positive correlation with their satisfaction about the implementation of IE policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An accountability approach influences the way in which school leadership is practiced (Leithwood, 2001). A managerial approach to accountability is one which makes leadership practices to follow hierarchical system control (Møller, 2009). Market approach and decentralization approach to accountability respectively increases competition among schools for students and encourages the participation of parents and other community members in school governance structure. Professional approach to accountability emphasises on creating professional learning community (PLC) and distributes leadership to teachers empowering them in decision making (Leithwood, 2005). This paper reports on a study that examined the accountability approach and leadership practices in ten primary schools of Bangladesh that were involved in an inclusive education reform. Interview method was applied to collect data from formal and informal school leaders. Bangladeshi schools primarily use a managerial approach to accountability which makes the leaders of the school to be adherent to rules and accountable to the bureaucratic system. There was evidence of leaders who felt powerless because of the top-down management control system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]