Role and Influence of School Boards on Improving Educational Quality

Nihlfors, Elisabet; Paulsen, Jan Merok; Skedsmo, Guri; Moos, Lejf; Pulkkinen, Seppo; Kanervio, Pekka

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05494-0_9

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“…It is "a tangled web of couplings" in educational organizations (Rowan 2002). What can be described as loose and tight couplings exist simultaneously and even on the same level in a system of control (Nihlfors et al 2014).…”

Section: The Changing Educational System Of Governance Framing and Smentioning

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Codification of Present Swedish Curriculum Processes: Linking Educational Activities over Time and Space

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Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik

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The aim of this chapter is to explore the relationship between curriculum and leadership research with examples of three recently completed mixed methods studies of assessment cultures and leadership as interlinked activities of governance and school management. We employ curriculum theoretical concepts like e.g. codes and arenas to illustrate their usefulness as a point of departure to further theorize a changing educational landscape. In our study, we illustrate how curriculum and leadership research are historically linked. We put forward some concepts to address the increased complexity of the governance system, and we stress the need to strengthen how different ways of forming the steering system interplay with key curriculum questions. Leadership researchers have, to a large extent, studied school development on a municipality-and organizational level asking questions on how to manage and guide school development. In contrast, curriculum researchers have studied school development from a reform-and governmental perspective more asking questions on how to steer educational development through law, curricula and evaluation. We suggest that these research traditions ought to be further united in order to develop both traditions in less normative, and more, critical ways, and to answer crucial educational questions in glocal times (Marginson and Rhoades. Conceptualising global relations at the glonacal levels. Paper presented at the annual international forum of the Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Richmond, VA, November 15-18, 2001). This chapter concludes with an argument for a new comparative curriculum code due to major shifts including curriculum practices, message systems, levels, arenas and number of curriculummakers engaged.

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Section: The Changing Educational System Of Governance Framing and Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Codification of Present Swedish Curriculum Processes: Linking Educational Activities over Time and Space

Forsberg

Nihlfors

Pettersson

et al. 2017

Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik

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“…Derimod findes der i samtlige nordiske lande en taet kobling mellem skolechefen og udvalgsformanden, når det drejer sig om organisation, strategiske og økonomiske spørgsmål. En del udvalgsmedlemmer mener derimod, at de kun har ringe indflydelse på beslutninger vedrørende de enkelte skoler (Nihlfors et al, 2014). Selvom formanden har en vigtig rolle at spille i styringen af skolen, er staten stadigvaek staerk, og uddannelsespolitikken er på alle niveauer underlagt en stigende indflydelse fra eksterne eksperter og agenter, som ofte benytter sig af forskelige data.…”

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