Overview
- Demonstrates how superintendents are increasingly by-passed in the chain of educational governance
- Provides case studies on how Nordic superintendents are losing ground in the chain of educational governance
- Shows how municipal governance is shifting from the democratic sphere towards an administrative sphere
- Discusses the implications of superintendents being drawn into a performativity culture
- Reflects Nordic superintendents in an international perspective
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 2)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Country Reports
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Front Matter
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Thematic Chapters
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Danish superintendents
- Finnish superintendents
- Superintendents’ motivational forces
- Swedish superintendents
- accountabilty - responsibility
- chairs and school leaders
- general public governance
- middle-municipal level
- network governance
- new institutionalism
- relations between politicians and administrators
- school boards and principals
- superintendents’ leadership practices
- transnational thinking
- New Public Management
- New Public Governance
- de-politisation
- governance network
- neo-liberal discourses
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Reviews
“The education systems of the Nordic countries – with their traditional commitment to Bildung, their conscious preparation of students for life in a democracy and their constant strivings for equality - have much to teach the rest of the world. Superintendents have been key players in fashioning these attributes.” (Peter Mortimore, Professor Emeritus, Richmond, England)
“One of many important conclusions of the book concerns the emptying of local democratic governing and influence that has taken place in most of the studied countries (Finland being the notable exception) when the local political level is bypassed in various ways ... .” (Lisbeth Lundahl, Professor, Umeå University, Sweden)
“Critical skills needed at the level of policymaking and its effects on implementation don’t lie in “knowing the right answers, but asking the right questions”. The right questions give rise to salient and insightful answers.” (Catherine Odora Hoppers, South African Research Chair in Development Education, University of South Africa)
“The authors of this compelling volume have lived the history of change and the tightening grip of a performativity culture. Historically, a signal strength of Nordic schools has been lateral support and collegiality.” (John MacBeath, Professor Emeritus, Cambridge, England)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain
Editors: Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen
Series Title: Educational Governance Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25106-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25104-2Published: 08 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79735-9Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25106-6Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2365-9548
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 334
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education