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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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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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School Leadership in Denmark: Between Two Historical and Contemporary Discourses
Looking back at the history of society, culture and institutions in Denmark can produce snapshots of the foundation of education and educational...
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International Perspectives on Successful School Leadership
Since the turn of the millennium there has been sustained interest in successful school leadership, beginning as an attempt to expand the focus of...
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Policy Demands, Expectations, and Changed Leadership Roles During the COVID-19 Crisis: Critical Comparative Case Studies from Denmark and Iceland
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education has been considerable and Nordic countries were not excluded. The everyday operations and...
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Making Sense of Nordic School Leadership – Four Perspectives on Similarities and Variations
This book can be regarded as a follow up to the series of Springer-editions about the Nordic perspectives on studies in educational leadership. Lejf...
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What Can British Catholic Schools Learn About Leadership from OECD Data? Part 1: Teachers and School Leaders as Lifelong Learners
Much of the literature on leadership in Catholic schoolsLeadership in Catholic schools refers to the Catholic identityCatholic identity of the...
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Situated technology infusion in a school district: how systems and structures mediate the process
This study explores educational technology infusion in the U.S. school district context. We used a complex systems perspective to understand the...
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A case study on a novel cross-sectoral complementary merger in China: from the perspectives of leadership
Acting as a governmental tool to enhance competitiveness and integrate research and education by merging a local university and a provincial academy...
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Secondary Education (Middle School) in China
Compulsory educationCompulsory education in China refers to the mandatory, free, and universal education that all school-age children and teenagers...
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International Perspectives on Successful School Leadership
Since the turn of the millennium there has been sustained interest in successful school leadership, beginning as an attempt to expand the focus of...
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Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care Through Leadership and Organizational Learning
Early childhood education and care years (ECEC) are crucial in children's lives, as they form the foundation for further development. A high-quality...
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Nordic Cooperation on Modernization of School Mathematics, 1960–1967
After a seminar on new thinking in school mathematics held in Royaumont in 1959, four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, agreed...
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Combating youth’s unemployment rate by integrating entrepreneurship in middle school education
Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in fostering job creation and economic growth, underscoring the need to encourage and support youth in...
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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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Discussion: The Importance of Context in European School Policy Reforms
The chapter discusses relations between transnational alignments and national contestations in school reform policies in Europe in the movements 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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School Leadership in Search of Common Goods and Complex Equality: An Alternative to Neoliberal Vision
As we have seen throughout these chapters, the conceptions and practices of school leadership do not correspond to disembodied standards promoted by...
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Gender -Based Violence and School Exclusion
This chapter problematises legal school exclusion based on a classification code of “sexual misconduct” and highlights gender-based violence (GBV)...
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The use of stakeholder voice through school self-evaluation in Turkish schools
School self-evaluation based on multiple data sources has been used to evaluate the quality of education at schools. This study aims to reveal the...
