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Frauke Meyer; Ide Katrine Birkeland; Anne Berit Emstad; Deidre M. Le Fevre – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
Solving complex problems is critical to educational leaders' ability to achieve improvement in schools. Much of this problem-solving is carried out in conversations with staff. This paper draws on theories of collaborative problem-solving and interpersonal effectiveness to examine the behavior of leaders in such conversations -- in Norway and New…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Educational Improvement, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Forfang, Hilde – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
The literature has revealed that high-performing districts establish collaborative working relations with school leaders as a part of the strategy to improve student achievement. This study was designed to investigate the relationships and interactions that school owners and principals in municipalities with high-performing school results employ…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Municipalities, Governance, Rural Schools
Biseth, Heidi, Ed.; Hoskins, Bryony, Ed.; Huang, Lihong, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Democracy, Teaching Methods
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Elken, Mari – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
The development of comprehensive national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe has been sparked by the introduction of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) in 2008. Taking an institutional perspective, this article examines the development of NQFs in three countries, in light of developments that have taken place at the European…
Descriptors: Qualifications, National Standards, Educational Development, Educational Cooperation