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Understanding Leadership in Educational Leadership Research in Finland
This systematic literature review focuses on previous academic research on leadership in the context of the Finnish education system for minors,...
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Leadership in Educational Contexts in Finland Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth coverage of contemporary aspects of leadership in the field of education in...
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Educational Policy, Governance, and Leadership
This chapter investigates the educational policy and governance, and also leadership in educational contexts in Finland from the 1950s into today’s...
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Leading Complex Educational Change Via National Participative Reforms? A Case of Finnish Core Curriculum Reform Leadership
National-level educational administrators constantly face the question of how to ensure that the basic education system successfully meets complex...
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Towards a Multi-form Professional Development of Educational Leadership
This chapter aims to investigate the professional development of educational leadership based on the need to define and develop leadership in...
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Challenges and Reflections for Develo** Leadership in Educational Contexts
This volume was inspired by the observation that over the past 20 years, the educational system and public administration in general have changed...
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Moral Professionalism in the Context of Educational Leadership
This chapter aims to investigate moral professionalism in the context of educational leadership. Many researchers have investigated school...
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Getting in, getting rooted, and spread: An actor network analysis of the spread of an educational innovation in Finland and the United States
This study compares the adoption and spread of an educational innovation—a project-based, interest-driven, science, technology, engineering, arts,...
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The Cultural and Social Foundations of Ethical Educational Leadership in Finland
This chapter provides the Finnish scope on cultural and social foundations of ethical educational leadership. Finland is often seen as an outlier....
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Finland: A Structure of Trust
The Finnish education system is characterized by a high level of trust. There are no school inspections, textbook controls, or standardized national...
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Positioning and Conceptualising Finnish Pedagogical Leadership in the International Setting
This chapter presents the conceptual evolvement of Finnish pedagogical leadership in the international setting. There are three main scopes. First,...
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Critical Engagement and Commitment to the Field of Educational Leadership
This chapter recognises and responds to Professor Helen M. Gunter’s work on theorising critical educational leadership and her analysis of the...
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Entrepreneurship Education in Finland
This chapter presents the state-of-the-art entrepreneurship education (EE) in Finland through lenses applied in this volume.
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Prosociality in Shared Leadership from the Finnish Principals’ Viewpoint
This chapter aims to explore the role of prosociality when exercising shared leadership in Finnish schools. Educational professionals work...
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Service Design Thinking Method for Educational Leaders
Leading educational work can be a challenge as it includes guiding many different stakeholder groups. This study presents the service design process...
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Contradictions and Opportunities in Contexts of Everyday Leadership in Education
In this chapter, we focus on the emergence of contradictions and opportunities in everyday leadership in five comprehensive schools. We discuss how...
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Teachers as Leaders? Finnish Student Teachers’ Perceptions of Participation in Leadership in School
School teachers’ work is increasingly associated with leadership. Teacher autonomy is exceptionally high in Finland, and newly qualified teachers are...
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Teaching in Finland
This chapter introduces the principles of Finnish higher education and universities and their teaching. The Finnish education system is discussed in...
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Early Childhood Special Education in Finland
This paper examines Finnish early childhood special education (ECSE) and how it has been evolving in Finland. The Finnish early childhood education...
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The Why, Where, How and What of Curriculum Leadership: A Non-affirmative Approach
The movement from a social-democratic welfare state towards a neoliberal competition state since the 1990s in Europe required a multi-level...