Overview
- Analyses contemporary features in educational governance in a range of national contexts
- Presents cross-country and thematic cases that improve the understanding of how transnational and national policies are transformed into local policy cultures
- Sheds light on educational governance and its potential impact on school professionals
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 1)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Country Reports
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Front Matter
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Thematic Chapters
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 role as the interface between state policies and the schools. This book discusses the variation across different national systems in the Nordic countries in the degree of decentralism, as well as the processes through which sources of political autonomy are put into practice by school boards. It explores the interplay between context and policy-making at the local level, and analyses how local discourses expressed by school boards differ from national policies and trans-national influences. The book’s analysis of the country-cases and thematic chapters shows that there are both important similarities and significant differences in governance functions, power relations and understandings of school board chairs and members between the countries studied. Moreover, the book analyses the many ways in which these similarities and differences affect the work context of school leaders and teachers in the Nordic countries.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Boards in the Governance Process
Editors: Lejf Moos, Jan Merok Paulsen
Series Title: Educational Governance Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05494-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05493-3Published: 13 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35439-2Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05494-0Published: 28 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2365-9548
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education