School leadership: constitution and distribution

Vennebo, Kirsten Foshaug; Ottesen, Eli

doi:10.1080/13603124.2011.624642

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“…This section summarizes the changes with a focus on the paradoxical dynamics of the management practices. Thus this research contributes to the theorization of school management by specifying the content and unfolding the paradoxical struggles and coping strategies that management in contemporary school changes are involved in (Helstad & Møller, 2013;Vennebo & Ottesen, 2012).…”

Section: Primus Inter Pares-paradoxes Deadlocks and Detours In Pracmentioning

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Management of Professionals in School Practices

Jacobsen

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2016

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This article investigates organizational reform changes as they are constructed in the interaction between managers and teachers in a school context. The empirical basis is comprised of case studies carried out in Danish upper secondary schools. An ethnographic approach and a concept of paradox related to an understanding of professionals are used to investigate the practices involved in the change processes. The article argues that the ambiguity of a primus inter pares management position among professionals leads to several paradoxes, deadlocks, and detours, all of which affect the work for change in the schools. Significant paradoxes are identified on the basis of the empirical material, and methodological advantages of a proposed paradox perspective, are demonstrated.

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Section: Primus Inter Pares-paradoxes Deadlocks and Detours In Pracmentioning

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Management of Professionals in School Practices

Jacobsen

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2016

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“…Their studies reveal various coping strategies of professionals as they handle emerging tensions related to leadership. It is also illustrated how school leadership is interactively achieved in social activities (Vennebo & Ottesen 2012). The concept of perspective is used to illustrate the plurality of authorial sources of influence from which leadership emanates.…”

Section: Management In School Settingsmentioning

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“…We have constructed at research perspective and position emphasizing the complexity and the generation of rich empirical material at the expense of generalizations, normative categories and causality. Thus we contribute to the literature on shared and dispersed forms of management in school settings by shedding light on tensions and paradoxes related to school management (Bolden, 2011;Helstad & Møller, 2013;Spillane et al, 2015;Vennebo & Ottesen, 2012). The analysis specifies the content of what primus inter pares management is struggling with when interacting with professionals and it specifies how the interactive work processes unfold.…”

Section: Primus Inter Pares-paradoxes Deadlocks and Detours In Pracmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus this research contributes to the theorization of school management by specifying the content and unfolding the paradoxical struggles and coping strategies that management in contemporary school changes are involved in (Helstad & Møller, 2013;Vennebo & Ottesen, 2012).…”

Section: Primus Inter Pares-paradoxes Deadlocks and Detours In Pracmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A few studies shed light on the tensions and contradictions related to leadership in school settings from a relational view. Helstad and Møller (2013), as well as Vennebo and Ottesen (2012), should be mentioned. The authors explore how the participants position themselves and others through negotiations in meetings.…”

Section: Management In School Settingsmentioning

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Abstract:The regulation of professional groups has often been justified as being in the public interest. In recent decades, policymakers in Anglo-American countries have questioned whether self-regulating professions have truly served the public interest, or whether they have merely acted in their own interests. This paper draws on legislative records and policy reports to explore meanings attached to professional self-regulation and the public interest in Canada by state actors over the past 150 years. The findings point to a shift in the definition of the public interest away from service quality and professional interests, towards efficiency, human rights, consumer choice, and in some contexts business interests. Changing views of the public interest contribute to regulatory change.Keywords: Professions, public interest, self-regulation, Canada, historical change, state actors.Over the last 50 years there has been considerable debate amongst Anglo-American policymakers and academics alike about whether professional self-regulation is truly in the public interest (Devlin & Chang, 2010; Rees, 2013; Paton, 2008). Selfregulating professions including medicine and law have been rocked by scandals. Formerly among the most trusted people in society, increasingly the public views lawyers, medical doctors, and other professionals more cynically, as individuals who too often put their own interests above those of their clients (Paton, 2008). The rising costs of professional services, combined with scandals surrounding professional misconduct, have provoked a complete restructuring of professional regulation in law and medicine in the UK (Flood, 2011; Paton, 2008;Dixon-Woods, Yeung, & Bosk, 2011). Here, medical doctors, lawyers, and other professionals are no longer technically self-regulating; while they have a voice in the regulatory process, the majority of people on regulatory boards are non-professionals (Dixon-Woods et al., 2011; Paton, 2008). Australia has recently implemented similar legislative change to reduce self-regulation and enhance government oversight (Rees, 2013; Paton, 2008). Threats to professional self-regulation have also been identified within the US (Paton, 2008). Regulatory change has been justified on the grounds that it is necessary to serve the public interest. Despite these challenges, professional self-regulation persists in Canada (Rees, 2013; Paton, 2008), which some law scholars have labelled "the last bastion of unfettered self-regulation" in the world (Rhode & Woolley, 2012, p. 2774. Legislation regulating professions in Canada charges professional bodies with the responsibility of upholding the public interest.In debates about professional regulation, many commentators write about the "public interest" as if it is easily and objectively defined; however, the elasticity with which the term is used suggests that it is a social construction and therefore subject to contest and change. Both defenders and challengers of professional self-regulation make their case on public interest grou...

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A Decade of Research on School Principals

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School leadership: constitution and distribution

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Management of Professionals in School Practices

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