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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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The discursive construction of responsibility among teachers in Singapore: “Everything is good, so we do everything”
Teachers’ work in school is said to be under increasing pressure from neoliberal forces. Key constructs that are essential in understanding how...
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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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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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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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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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Towards network governance: educational reforms and governance changes in China (1985–2020)
Network governance has become a widely recognized and increasingly utilized instrument for leading and managing public service delivery, especially...
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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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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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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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School Leaders within the Icelandic Education System: Complex Roles, Multilevel Relations, and Fragmented Support
The tasks and roles of school leaders in Iceland have changed in parallel with a steady and constant development taking place within the education...
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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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Local education authority’s quality management within a coupled school system: Strategies, actions, and tensions
International policy trends point to an increased focus on student achievement, teaching quality, and school outcomes. Attention to Swedish students’...
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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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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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Educational Leadership and Reforms of Governance in China
This chapter will focus on the historical and cultural evolution of educational leadership in China. Based on the construction of the connotation of...
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In Quest of Principalship
The chapter uses a sco** literature review of Finnish school research to make sense of the task and practice of principalship in the Finnish...