Description: School Boards in the Governance Process Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Lejf Moos, Jan Merok Paulsen Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319354392, 978-3319354392 Synopsis This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The overarching research question explored by the national studies contained in this volume is: How are transnational influences of standardization and accountability, alongside national policies, transformed into local policy cultures by the school boards? In all the Nordic countries, the municipalities are equivalent with the school district level, and municipalities, as such, play a role as the interface between state policies and the schools. This book discusses the variation across different national systems in the Nordic countries in the degree of decentralism, as well as the processes through which sources of political autonomy are put into practice by school boards. It explores the interplay between context and policy-making at the local level, and analyses how local discourses expressed by school boards differ from national policies and trans-national influences. The book's analysis of the country-cases and thematic chapters shows that there are both important similarities and significant differences in governance functions, power relations and understandings of school board chairs and members between the countries studied. Moreover, the book analyses the many ways in which these similarities and differences affect the work context of school leaders and teachers in the Nordic countries.
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Book Title: School Boards in the Governance Process
Number of Pages: 180 Pages
Publication Name: School Boards in the Governance Process
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Education, Strategy
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 2934 g
Author: Jan Merok Paulsen, Lejf Moos
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Educational Governance Research
Format: Paperback
