The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this timely book leading thinkers from around the world offer a different vision of what schools are for. They suggest new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. They question many of the tenets of school effectiveness studies which have been so influential in shaping policy, but are essentially backward looking and premised on school structures as we have known them. Each chapter confronts some of the myths of schooling we have...
The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this timely book leading thinkers from around the...
Presenting a different vision of what schools are, this title suggests new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. The contributors question many of the tenets of school effectiveness studies which have been so influential in shaping policy, but are essentially backward looking.
Presenting a different vision of what schools are, this title suggests new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schoo...
This work represents a publishing event in education research. Genuinely groundbreaking, it is the result of longitudinal research from five nations over five years. The authors set themselves an unprecedented task: to analyze how it is that successful school principals sustain positive outcomes over a significant period of time. To find out, they initiated the International Successful School Principal Project (ISSPP) assembling 30 multinational case histories and numerous comparative analyses. In doing so, they recorded fresh perspectives on the influence school principals can have on...
This work represents a publishing event in education research. Genuinely groundbreaking, it is the result of longitudinal research from five nation...
This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social class, abilities, gender, or ethnicity. Against this background, The Nordic Education Model traces the rise of neo-liberal policies that have been enacted by those who believe the School for All ideology does not produce the knowledge and skills that students need to succeed in an increasingly...
This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, ...
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 explores to what extent transnational influences change national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational systems. It provides country cases and thematic chapters that give nuanced insights into the influence of transnational agencies on national governance and discourses. It describes how national discourses and regulation influences school leadership values, culture and practice, in competition with traditional values.
The transnational and global discourse on educational leadership is mostly formed according to Anglo-American thinking and tradition. Pivotal...
This book explores to what extent transnational influences change national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational systems. It provide...
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 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 examines the conflict between the traditional School for All educational model in Nordic European countries and more recent neo-liberal policies. It reveals a way to balance tradition, institutionalized practices, and contemporary policies.
This book examines the conflict between the traditional School for All educational model in Nordic European countries and more recent neo-liberal poli...
