ERIC Number: EJ1410731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
EISSN: EISSN-1464-5106
Made in Sweden? Configured Digitalized School Leadership Practice
Journal of Education Policy, v39 n1 p149-165 2024
Few notions seem to capture the imagination of education policymakers today as completely as digitalization and leadership. Through these two, schools are believed to become transformed, and in turn, these transformed schools will transform people and society. This paper critically analyzes a Swedish official digital policy instrument that materializes digitalized school leadership practice. The policy instrument is made available as a "helpful tool" by a Swedish official education agency. The paper scrutinizes the policy knowledge process set to work within the instrument by the agency. Particularly, how the instrument may influence people to come to know and change schools, and how responsibility and risk of digitalization in schools seems to first be transferred to, and then between, people in schools. The paper is concluded by a discussion of how: (a) three knowledge phases interact in the knowledge process of the instrument, (b) the technical -- rather than social -- solution that digitalized school leadership practice is found to be, and (c) implications for digitalization in schools as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon of interest to research.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Educational Policy, Leadership, Responsibility, Risk, Governance, Elementary Secondary Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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