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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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An Overture: A Historical Overview of Political and Cultural Antecedents of the Nordic School System and its Variety of Teacher Education Programmes
Trade and contact between people in the northwest corner of Europe and other parts of the world can be traced far back in time. The attacks and raids...
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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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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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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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Evidence and Accountability in Icelandic Education – An Historical Perspective?
Accountability and evidence play a prominent role in modern educational discourse. Against the background of the rapidly changing culture relating to...
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Teacher Education in the Faroe Islands
This chapter begins with an overview of the 150-year history of teacher education in the Faroe Islands. The quality of the current teacher education...
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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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Middle Leaders in the Schools
There is increasing recognition of the contribution of middle leadership to the improvement of learning outcomes of diverse groups of learners....
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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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Develo** Interprofessional Collaboration: Learning Communities in Early Childhood Education and Care in Iceland
With the immigrant share of 15%, the focus in Iceland is on ensuring educational settings are prepared to respond to the needs and resources of...
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Southern Reflections on Education Toward a Sustainable North
To those of us closer to the Antarctic region of the world, the concept of the Circumpolar North is quite intriguing. The chapters in this book...
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Middle Leaders in the Schools
There is increasing recognition of the contribution of middle leadership to the improvement of learning outcomes of diverse groups of learners....
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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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Ways in Which Technology Education Teachers Can Integrate Indigenous Technology Through Action Learning
This chapter aims to guide the African teachers of Technology Education (TE) to integrate indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) with success and...
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Discussion: The Nordic Dimension in National School Policies and Transnational Social Technologies?
This volume analyses how social technologies – like evidence-based education, what works practices and digitalization of schooling – are being...
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Nordic School Policy Approaches to Evidence, Social Technologies and Transnational Collaboration
This volume gives an overview of how national school policies in the five different Nordic countries have produced, interpreted and practiced...
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Environmental trust? Sustainability and renewables policy and practice in the school years
The mobilisation of young people is an essential part of attempts to mitigate the effects of climate change. This position paper investigates matches...
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The Intricacies of Educational Development in Iceland: Stability or Disruption?
The chapter will explore the development of the Icelandic education system by using a twofold historical perspective. More specifically, the analysis...
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Critical Potential of Nordic School Leadership Research
Nordic governments often use phrases like this in education policy discussions. They are vague and serve as fluid signifiers that everybody can...