This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The overarching research question explored by the national studies contained in this volume is: How are transnational influences of standardization and accountability, alongside national policies, transformed into local policy cultures by the school boards? In all the Nordic countries, the municipalities are equivalent with the school district level, and municipalities, as such, play a...
This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards i...
This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known...
This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being a...
This book examines the transformations of epistemic governance in education, the way in which some actors are shaping new knowledge, and how that new knowledge impacts other actors in charge of implementing this knowledge in the context of the decision-making process and practice. The book describes knowledge-based and evidence-based technologies that produce new modes of representation, cognitive categories, and value-based judgements which determine and guide actions and interactions between researchers, experts and policy-makers. It explores several major social theories and concepts,...
This book examines the transformations of epistemic governance in education, the way in which some actors are shaping new knowledge, and how that new ...
This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The overarching research question explored by the national studies contained in this volume is: How are transnational influences of standardization and accountability, alongside national policies, transformed into local policy cultures by the school boards? In all the Nordic countries, the municipalities are equivalent with the school district level, and municipalities, as such, play a...
This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards i...
This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerging consultocracy, with privileged access to governments and public services. It presents a detailed mapping of consultants and consultancy in education as a site of change and modernisation in public sector service provision. It considers consultancy at a macro-level of globalised policy, at a meso-level of national government policy, and at a micro level with vivid descriptions and analyses of consultants at work.
The rapid rise...
This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerg...
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This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future empirical research.
Recent neoliberal policies and transnational governance practices point toward new tensions in nation state education. These challenges affect governance,...
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curr...
This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good.
This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foun...
The second chapter describes the national reform processes of the six selected countries, giving a voice to the individual university rectors and officials who played an important role during the reform processes.
The second chapter describes the national reform processes of the six selected countries, giving a voice to the individual university rectors and offi...
