Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain

This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is moving towards focusing on soft governance and social technologies as the preferred means of influences. Thus we rename it New Public Governance (NPG).

Autor:Lejf Moos

Verlag:

Springer International Publishing

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Veröffentlichung:	08.12.2015
Höhe/Breite/Gewicht	H 23,5 cm / B 15,5 cm / -
Seiten	334
Art des Mediums	Buch [Gebundenes Buch]
Preis DE	EUR 106.99
Preis AT	EUR 109.99
Reihe	Educational Governance Research
ISBN-13	978-3-319-25104-2
ISBN-10	331925104X

Über den Autor

Lejf Moos is a Professor Emeritus in education, educational leadership and governance in the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. He has studied education, leadership and governance for a number of years and has also published books and journal articles in Danish and English and edited books and journals.

Elisabet Nihlfors is a Professor in Education with focus on leadership and leads the research unit Research in Educational Leadership (REL) at Uppsala university. Her research includes governance of schools, leadership, policymaking and democracy.

Jan Merok Paulsen is a Professor in educational leadership affiliated to Oslo Metropolitan University in Oslo, Norway. His research interests encompass school governance, school leadership, principal training, and leading schools from the middle line of the school's hierarchy. He has co-edited a series of books and has published a number of articles in scientific journals such as International Journal of Educational Management, Journal of Educational Administration and Leadership & Policy in Schools.