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Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership Is there a Nordic Model? /

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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Moos, Lejf. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Studies in Educational Leadership ; 19
Subjects:
Education.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Educational Policy and Politics.
International and Comparative Education.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6226-8
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Forewords by John MacBeath, Peter Mortimore, Jim Spillane and Philip Woods
  • 1. Prelude <U+0013> Tuning the Instrument; Lejf Moos
  • Part 1. Country Cases. 2. Denmark: New Links between Education and Economics; Lejf Moos, Klaus Kasper Kofod, Katrin Hjort & Peter Henrik Raae
  • 3. Educational Leadership in Finland <U+0013> or Building a Nation with Bildung; Michael Uljens and Cilla Nyman
  • 4. Transnational Influence and Educational Policy in Iceland; Br̲kur Hansen
  • 5. Norway: Centralisation and Decentralisation as Twin Reform Strategies; Jorunn Ml̜ler and Guri Skedsmo
  • 6. Sweden: Centralization and Decentralization as Implementation Strategies; Mikael Holmgren, Olof Johansson & Elisabet Nihlfors
  • Part 2. Thematic Chapters
  • 7. Independent Schools in Different Nordic Contexts <U+0013> Implications for School Leadership?; Pia Skott and Klaus Kasper Kofod
  • 8. Leadership for Democracy; Lejf Moos, Br̲kur Hansen, Gr̲an Bjr̜k & Olof Johansson
  • 9. The Professionalization of Nordic School Leadership; Michael Uljens, Jorunn Ml̜ler, Helene ♯rlestig & Lars Frode Frederiksen
  • 10. Successful Nordic School Leadership; Lejf Moos, Olof Johansson & Guri Skedsmo
  • 11. Local Decisions under Central Watch - A New Nordic Quality Assurance System; Olof Johansson, Elisabet Nihlfors, Mikael Holmgren, Lejf Moos, Guri Skedsmo, Jan Merok Paulsen & Mika Risku
  • 12. The Nordic Superintendentsþ Leadership Roles: Cross National Comparison; Elisabet Nihlfors, Olof Johansson, Lejf Moos, Jan Merok Paulsen & Mika Risku
  • 13. Postlude <U+0013> Wrap up of the Argument; Lejf Moos
  • Author Biographies.

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