Overview
- Compares thinking and practice across all Nordic educational systems
- Links transnational trends and tendencies to national governance and discourses
- Analyses contemporary features in educational leadership in different national contexts
Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 19)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Country Cases
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Thematic Chapters
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About this book
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 practice, in competition with traditional values.
The transnational and global discourse on educational leadership is mostly formed according to Anglo-American thinking and tradition. Pivotal foundations of this discourse are strong hierarchical societies/class societies with liberal democracies, and clearly streamed education systems. The Nordic discourse, however, builds on a more equal society and flat hierarchies with participatory democracy, and on comprehensive schooling with strong local community roots. Leadership thinking and practices are formed by the culture and context theyare part of: they are primarily shaped by the national/local values, traditions and practices, and only partially shaped by politics, discourses and literature. Due to the fact that a great deal of the literature that is being used in the Nordic contexts is of Anglo-American origin and many of the research projects have Anglo-American foundations, it is difficult to distinguish the sources for leadership thinking and practice. This book distinguishes the Nordic from the Anglo-American thinking and presents important findings and arguments for leadership practitioners inside as well as outside the Nordic countries.​
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership
Book Subtitle: Is there a Nordic Model?
Editors: Lejf Moos
Series Title: Studies in Educational Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6226-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6225-1Published: 28 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9608-9Published: 12 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6226-8Published: 15 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1572-3909
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0130
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 228
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education