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Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of school climate: the role of principals’ leadership style in organizational quality
In this paper, we report on teachers’ and principals’ shared perceptions regarding beliefs, rules, trust, and encouragement of new initiatives....
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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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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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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’ 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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The Right to Education in Sweden
The following chapter deals with the right to education in a Swedish context; the system, the rules of law and also touching upon the pedagogical...
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Co-operation of Edu-business and Public Schooling: Is the Governance of Education in Finland Shifting from the Public Sector to Networks?
The number of edu-business actors involved in Finnish schooling is increasing, as is their collaboration with the public sector. This chapter...
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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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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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Sense-making of autonomy and control: Comparing school leaders in public and independent schools in a Swedish case
This article analyses how school leaders depict their autonomy and how they make sense of the relationship between autonomy and control. Attention is...
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Fragmentation Management from Policy to Practice. Special Educational Needs Teachers (SEN Teachers) in Mainstream Schools in Germany
Inclusive education is one of the most far-reaching reform projects in school policy since decades in Germany. In the perspective of educational...
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Understanding Swedish Educational Policy Developments in the Field of Digital Education
This chapter describes and analyzes Swedish educational policy related to technology and digital education over the past decades with a focus on how...
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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...
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Aims of Citizenship Education Across Nordic Countries: Comparing School Principals’ Priorities in Citizenship Education 2009–2016
The Nordic welfare state has been associated with certain ideas of citizenship, the highlights of which are equal rights, social mobility, democracy,...
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Divided Cities—Divided Schools? School Segregation and the Role of Needs-Based Resource Allocation in Finland
For a long time, Finland stood out in international pupil assessments with a rare combination of excellent overall performance and a high level of...
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What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different...
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Principals Decision-Making for Organising the Educational Organisation
Over the past several years, there has been a greater demand for accountability of principals for the education they provide. A call for data-driven...
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What is the problem and how can we solve it? School authorities’ perceptions of the shortage of teachers in Sweden
The lack of fully trained teachers is a national challenge in Sweden despite numerous attempts by authorities to approach the issue from a long-term...
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Religions and Worldviews as “The Problem” in Finnish Schools
Finland has a rather unique model of non-confessional worldview education that draws on pupils’ “own worldview”. Internationally this model has been...