Educational Authorities and the Schools
Organisation and Impact in 20 States
Editors: Ärlestig, Helene, Johansson, Olof (Eds.)
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- Presents the variety and similarities between agencies impact on schools in various countries
- Contains both theoretical and descriptive analyses
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This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world. It examines the governing chain in the respective countries from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It does so against the background of the stability and rigour of the governing chains having been challenged, with some researchers considering the chain to be broken. However, the view that comes to the fore in this book is that the chain is still present and contains both vertical implementation structures and intervening spaces for policy interpretation.
How schools become successful is important for the individual students as well as the local community and the national state. A vast quantity of research has looked at what happens in schools and classrooms. At the same time, national governance and politics as well as local prerequisites are known to exert influence on schools and their results to a high degree. Societal priorities, problems and traditions provide variety in how governance is executed. This book provides an international overview of the similarities and differences between educational agencies and how their work influences schools.
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Introduction: Governing Chains – Support, Control and Intervention for Local Schools
Pages 1-15
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Denmark: Contracts in Danish Educational Governance
Pages 19-36
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Finland: Changing Operational Environment Changing Finnish Educational Governance
Pages 37-54
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Iceland: Challenges in Educational Governance in Iceland: The Establishment and Role of the National Agency in Education
Pages 55-73
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Norway: Educational Governance, Gap-Management Strategies, and Reorganizational Processes of the State Authorities in Norway
Pages 75-92
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Educational Authorities and the Schools
- Book Subtitle
- Organisation and Impact in 20 States
- Editors
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- Helene Ärlestig
- Olof Johansson
- Series Title
- Educational Governance Research
- Series Volume
- 13
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-38759-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-38759-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-38758-7
- Series ISSN
- 2365-9548
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 420
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
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