“…The articles dealing with the actor dimension within education predominantly report on research on school and local community's empowerment, autonomy and engagement in social control and democratic management. Some of them also discuss the participation of the Ostrom (2000), Karlsen (2000), Cole and John (2001), Arnott and Menter (2007), Hufty (2009), Arnott and Ozga (2010), Goodwin and Grix (2011) Nodal points: they are physical or virtual spaces where various problems, actors, workflows converge in time and space to make decisions, seal deals and create social norms applied throughout the education governance process. Such nodal points are characterized by trust between actors, social participation, effective decisions and transparent performance Hofman, Hofman and Guldemond (2002), N orvoa and Yariv-Mashal (2003), Hudson (2007) third sector in education governance.…”