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Framing Curriculum Making: Bureaucracy and Couplings in School Administration
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Wieland Wermke; Ronny Freier; Daniel Nordholm – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This article aims to undertake a comparative investigation of school administration to understand further the frames of curriculum making. School administration is an under-illuminated aspect of curriculum research. The paper commences from the notion that, in mass education, a school system is operationalized by many schools, which are coupled to…
Descriptors: School Administration, Foreign Countries, Decision Making, School Districts
School Principals' Perceptions of Autonomy and Control in Low-Ses Communities - Navigating Local School Administration on the Front Line
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Mette Liljenberg; Åsa Hirsh; Anette Jahnke; Åsa Karlsson Pérez – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
In the decentralized Swedish school system, the local education authority (LEA) level has an important position when it comes to school governance. This article takes a micro-level perspective on principals' perceptions of autonomy and control as they navigate local school administration in their front-line work in low - socio-economic status…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment
Agents and Subjects: Schooling and Conceptions of Citizenship in Early Nineteenth-Century Sweden
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Karlsson Sjögren, Åsa; Larsson, Esbjörn; Rimm, Stefan – History of Education, 2019
This article aims to analyse how the emerging Swedish school system in the early nineteenth century can be understood within the context of a gradual break-up of the estate society and its replacement with a class society in which citizenship was an important foundation. This is done through the discussion of the conceptions of citizenship on two…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Social Class
Evaluation in Local School Governance: A Framework for Analysis
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Hanberger, Anders – Education Inquiry, 2016
This article develops a conceptual framework for exploring the role and consequences of evaluation at the local level of school governance. It also provides a frame of reference for the articles in this special issue on the role of evaluation in local school governance in Sweden. It consists of key concepts, three models of decentralised…
Descriptors: Governance, Institutional Evaluation, School Administration, School Districts
Context-Responsive Leadership: Examining Superintendent Leadership in Context
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Bredeson, Paul V.; Klar, Hans W.; Johansson, Olof – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that context matters, that it affects leadership practices. A large body of descriptive studies documents common elements in the work of school superintendents. What is less well known is how superintendents' leadership may be expressed very differently given the varying contexts in which they work. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Location, Superintendents, Leadership
Successful Principalship: The Swedish Case
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Hoog, Jonas; Johansson, Olof; Olofsson, Anders – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: This paper seeks to describe the Swedish compulsory school system and explore a hypothesis about the relationship between structure, culture and leadership as preconditions for successful principalship. Design/methodology/approach: On the basis of earlier research, argues that a principal's success depends on how he or she alters school…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, Institutional Environment