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Principals’ Autonomy in the Nordic Countries: Governing Positions, Responsibilities, and Expectations
Growing political expectations exist for educational leaders in terms of their efforts to enhance students’ outcomes and apply education as a tool in...
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School Leadership in Times of Uncertainty: A School Principal’s Reflections from Cyprus
This chapter offers insights into educational leadership in relation to school principals, who play an important role as leaders in this new digital...
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Sweden – Good Will on All Governance Levels Is Not Enough to Create Sustainable Improvement
In Sweden as in the other Nordic countries schools are an important part of how individuals as well as society develops. How schools are led and...
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Principals’ Preparation and Professional Development in Nordic Countries
Principals in Nordic countries face increasing and changing demands in their work that have transformed the expectations of their knowledge and...
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School Leadership in Norway: Key Characteristics and Current Challenges
This chapter discusses the role and practices of Norwegian school principals in a policy context of increased monitoring and regulation and in a...
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School Leadership in Denmark: Leading Education and Leading a School
In this chapter, we elucidate tendencies in and prerequisites for school leadership in Denmark. School leadership is often constructed within a...
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Managerial practices and school efficiency: a data envelopment analysis across OECD and MENA countries using TIMSS 2019 data
School-level inefficiencies and mismanagement can have serious repercussions for human resource development and labor market outcomes. This paper...
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Professionalism in Practice: Contextual Differences in Understandings, Practices, and Effects of Teacher Autonomy
This chapter reports a three-year case study of a primary school in England, in which a recently appointed principal attempted to build “collegial...
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Principals’ Roles in a Nordic Education Context: Shared Responsibility and Pedagogical Engagement
The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss the role of Nordic school principals in a cross-national context and to highlight the...
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Enacting autonomy reform in schools: The re-sha** of roles and relationships under Local Schools, Local Decisions
Local Schools, Local Decisions (LSLD) was a package of school autonomy reforms operating in the state of New South Wales, Australia from 2012 to...
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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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Professionalism in Practice: Contextual Differences in Understandings, Practices, and Effects of Teacher Autonomy
This chapter reports a three-year case study of a primary school in England, in which a recently appointed principal attempted to build “collegial...
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Examining Contradictions for the Development of Competencies in School Leadership
This study examined the challenges school principals face at work, and their support needs for professional development. The study drew on...
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Leadership Preparation and Development Policies in England, Sweden and Russia: Exploring Policy and Practice
This chapter explores Teacher EducationTeacher education as an ongoing professional trajectory, exploring the implications for both the policyPolicy...
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Bridging principal-agent and mechanism design theories: an integrated conceptual framework for policy evaluation
Despite the movement toward post-new public management in western countries, the new public (NPM) management model is still a popular managerialism...
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Teacher Education of the Future: Trends and Possible Scenarios in the Nordic Context
This chapter uses current trends to outline possible scenarios in teacher education programmes in the Nordic countries. The starting point is that,...
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Toward agenda 2030 in education: policies and practices for effective school leadership
School leadership has been described as a key target for leveraging the quality of education in relation to sustainable development goal (SDG4) that...
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Globalisation and Models of Leadership in Schools
One of the major effects of economic forces of globalisationGlobalisation is that schools and school leaders, like other educational organisations,...
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Enacting teacher evaluation in Norwegian compulsory education: teachers’ perceptions of possibilities and constraints
This article reports from a case study investigating enactment of teacher evaluation (TE) policies in two lower secondary schools in a large...
