TY - BOOK AU - BerkhoutJ.Sarie AU - Heystek Jan AU - MncubeS.Vusi TI - Imagining the shaping of reflective deliberative education leaders:The devil is in the detail PY - 2010/// CY - Pretoria PB - Unisa Press and Routledge KW - Education leadership training programme KW - Critical reflective leadership KW - deliberative democracy in education leadership N2 - In this article we critically engage with some of the challenges and issues pertaining to the implementation of the Advanced Certificate in Education: School Leadership following a national agreement by the national Department of Education, provincial education departments and several universities. The rather idealised vision of the programme to provide learning opportunities to promote quality education in South African schools through the development of a corps of education leaders who apply critical understanding, values, knowledge and skills to school leadership and management in line with the vision of democratic transformation seemingly meshed with our own approach to the development of leadership. However, consequent to the planning, budgeting and implementation of this school leadership programme we realised that realities posed serious challenges. In this paper we narrate how it became increasingly clear how “the devil is in the detail” UR - 10.1080/18146627.2010.490024 ER -