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Newly Appointed Principals' Descriptions of a Decentralised and Marked Adopted School System: An Institutional Logics Perspective
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Nordholm, Daniel; Andersson, Klas – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
This article explores newly appointed principals' descriptions of a decentralised and market adopted school system. An institutional logics perspective is applied to analyse how logics visible at the national level evoke images among principals at the local level. Empirical data consist of 66 examinations from the National Principal Training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrative Organization
Universities Need Leadership, Academics Need Management: Discursive Tensions and Voids in the Deregulation of Swedish Higher Education Legislation
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Ekman, Marianne; Lindgren, Monica; Packendorff, Johann – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
In this article, we discuss how "managerialist" and "leaderist" discourses (O'Reilly and Reed "Public Administration" 88:960-978, 2010; "Organization Studies" 32:1079-1101, 2011) are drawn upon in the context of the deregulation of Swedish higher education. As of 2011, there has been new legislation that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Administration, Governance
Regulating and Quality-Assuring VET: International Developments. Research Report
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Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
The opening-up of the market for education and training, including vocational education and training (VET), has increased the importance of regulation and quality assurance mechanisms in ensuring the integrity of qualifications. This report investigates approaches to the regulation and quality assurance of vocational education and training in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Comparative Education, Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance and Teacher Education: International Challenges and Expectations. Rethinking Education. Volume 6
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Harford, Judith, Ed.; Hudson, Brian, Ed.; Niemi, Hannele, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
Ensuring quality in and through teaching and learning has become a fundamental global concern. Emanating from a colloquium on "Quality Assurance and Teacher Education" hosted by University College Dublin in 2010 and funded by the European Educational Research Association, this book interrogates how quality cultures can be fostered in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Research, Systems Approach
Where in the World Is School Psychology?: Examining Evidence of School Psychology around the Globe
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Jimerson, Shane R.; Skokut, Mary; Cardenas, Santiago; Malone, Heather; Stewart, Kaitlyn – School Psychology International, 2008
This study examined each of the 192 Member States of the United Nations to address three important questions: (1) how many countries have professionals who provide school psychology services; (2) which countries do and do not have school psychologists; (3) what evidence of school psychology is available in each country. Of the 192 Member States of…
Descriptors: Psychologists, School Psychologists, Professional Associations, School Psychology