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  • The Nordic Education Model

    'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social class, abilities, gender, or ethnicity.Against this background, The Nordic Education Model traces the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • School Boards in the Governance Process

    Edited by Lejf Moos, Jan Merok Paulsen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The overarching research question explored by the national studies contained in this volume is: How are transnational influences of standardization and accountability, alongside national ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Educational Leadership, Improvement and Change

    Discourse and Systems in Europe

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses selected critical concepts of policy and practice in educational leadership in five European countries. The editors and contributors cover Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Denmark and Norway, spanning a wide geographical region as well as diverse historical and political contexts. The analyses primarily consider the issues of convergence and divergence in local educational ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • National and Transnational Elite Influences on Education

    A Comparative Perspective on Shaping and Justifying Reforms

    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection focuses on transformations in the governance of education, paying attention to the trans-nationalisation of educational policies and the emergence of new actors in education. It focuses on the knowledge and instruments of government that shape education systems at different scales of governance. The book is a contribution to this field of research, focusing on the new roles and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Democratic Learning

    The Challenge to School Effectiveness

    Edited by John MacBeath, Lejf Moos ...
    The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this timely book leading thinkers from around the world offer a different vision of what schools are for. They suggest new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. They question many of the tenets of school effectiveness studies which ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • School Policy Reform in Europe

    Exploring Transnational Alignments, National Particularities and Contestations

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses national school policy reforms in a number of key European countries and shows how these are framed in transnational collaborations that meet with national particularities and contestations. It gives an overview of school policy developments that represents the diversity of Europe within a comparative framework.It takes point of departure in the fact that European countries in ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Cultural and Social Foundations of Educational Leadership

    An International Comparison

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book identifies the cultural and moral foundations of country-specific educational governance and school leadership and presents the principles of justice and the diversity of common goods that guide leadership practices in schools. It contributes to an existing research field that studies diversity and ethical leadership in schools.The social dimension of school leadership is not limited to ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • What Works in Nordic School Policies?

    Mapping Approaches to Evidence, Social Technologies and Transnational Influences

    Series Book 15 - Educational Governance Research
    This book offers an original contribution to the area of international research on comparative education policies and the influence of transnational agencies on national school policy and reform. With a focus on grasping what the Nordic model or the Nordic dimension means in school and educational policy, the book explores in depth the school policy contexts of the five Nordic countries Denmark, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Re-centering the Critical Potential of Nordic School Leadership Research

    Fundamental, but often forgotten perspectives

    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume contributes significantly to the ongoing international and Nordic paradigm shift in educational leadership research. It advocates for going from a contemporary, mainstream functionalist paradigm to a reflexive paradigm, based on educational values and knowledge. The volume is built on the shared basis, that the purpose of education is, and must be, fundamental for school leadership ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership

    Is there a Nordic Model?

    Edited by Lejf Moos ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores to what extent transnational influences change national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational systems. It provides country cases and thematic chapters that give nuanced insights into the influence of transnational agencies on national governance and discourses. It describes how national discourses and regulation influences school leadership values, culture and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • How School Principals Sustain Success over Time

    International Perspectives

    Series series Education (R0)
    This work represents a publishing event in education research. Genuinely groundbreaking, it is the result of longitudinal research from five nations over five years. The authors set themselves an unprecedented task: to analyze how it is that successful school principals sustain positive outcomes over a significant period of time. To find out, they initiated the International Successful School ... Read more

    $170.09 USD