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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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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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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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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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Teachers’ perceived opportunity to contribute to school culture transformation
Teachers’ active role in school development has been recognized as important in school culture transformation. Leadership practices, such as...
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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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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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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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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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Eastern versus Western gaps in whole child education: how school climate works for academic achievement and well-being across China, Korea, Finland, and the United States
Under current test-driven educational accountability policies, there has been a debate about school effectiveness. As conventionally measured by test...
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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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The Leadership Group as a Means for Teacher Participation and Leadership Distribution
For decades, discussion around school development and leadership has emphasised various collaborative practices, active participation, and...
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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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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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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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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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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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Bildung-Centred Non-affirmative School Didactics
This chapter contributes with a novel analysis of how non-affirmative theory of education and Bildung contribute to the development of a second...
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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...