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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.

School boards. --- Boards of education --- School governors --- School trustees --- School management and organization --- School districts --- State boards of education --- Administration, Organization and Leadership. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- International and Comparative Education. --- School management and organization. --- School administration. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Administration, Educational --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Management --- Organization --- History --- Government policy --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- International education.

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This book analyses the superintendent position and relations  and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is moving towards focusing on soft governance and social technologies as the preferred means of influences. Thus we rename it New Public Governance (NPG).

Education. --- School management and organization. --- School administration. --- Educational policy. --- ducation and state. --- Educational sociology. --- Teaching. --- Education and sociology. --- Sociology, Educational. --- Administration, Organization and Leadership. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Sociology of Education. --- Education and state. --- School management and organization --- Education and state --- Educational innovations --- Educational innovations. --- Educational planning. --- Scandinavia. --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Education --- Innovations, Educational --- Technological change in education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- Planning --- Innovations --- Technological innovations --- Government policy --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Educational planning --- Management --- Educational change --- Educational technology --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Administration, Educational --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- Organization --- Experimental methods --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Aims and objectives --- Teachers --- Organization and Leadership. --- Training of. --- Teacher education --- Teacher training --- Teachers, Training of

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This book analyses the superintendent position and relations  and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is moving towards focusing on soft governance and social technologies as the preferred means of influences. Thus we rename it New Public Governance (NPG).

Sociology of education --- Sociology --- Teacher education. Teacher's profession --- School management --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- Organization theory --- onderwijspolitiek --- organisatiemanagement --- sociologie --- onderwijs --- leidinggeven --- onderwijssociologie --- opvoeding --- administratie --- lerarenopleiding --- lesgeven

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Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of education --- Politics --- School management --- Educational sciences --- vergelijkende pedagogiek --- onderwijspolitiek --- onderwijs --- politiek --- sociale wetenschappen