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In the Eye of the Storm? Mapping out a Story of Principals' Decision-Making in an Era of Decentralisation and Re-Centralisation
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Nordholm, Daniel; Wermke, Wieland; Jarl, Maria – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore how Swedish principals experienced the decentralisation and re-centralisation reforms and how they affected principals' autonomy and decision-making capacity. Data were obtained from three surveys of Swedish principals, carried out in 2005, 2012 and 2019. The results show that principals experienced a high…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational History, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making
Contextualizing Teacher Autonomy in Time and Space: A Model for Comparing Various Forms of Governing the Teaching Profession
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Wermke, Wieland; Höstfält, Gabriella – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This study aims to develop a model for comparing different forms of teacher autonomy in various national contexts and at different times. Understanding and explaining local differences and global similarities in the teaching profession in a globalized world require conceptions that contribute to further theorization of comparative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Comparative Analysis, Governance
Silent and Explicit Borrowing of International Policy Discourses. The Case of The Swedish Teacher Education Reforms of 2001 and 2011
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Wermke, Wieland; Höstfält, Gabriella – Education Inquiry, 2014
The article presents different models of comparative education by discussing the government committee reports (SOU) which prepared the Swedish teacher education reforms of 2001 and 2011. These serve as examples for different kinds of policy borrowing from an international Bologna process discourse in national government document. The article…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation