This book analyses local school district governance in a
comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies
of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland,
Norway and Sweden. The overarching research question explored by
the national studies contained in this volume is: How are
transnational influences of standardization and accountability,
alongside national policies, transformed into local policy cultures
by the school boards? In all the Nordic countries, the
municipalities are equivalent with the school district level, and
municipalities, as such, play a role as the interface between state
policies and the schools. This book discusses the variation across
different national systems in the Nordic countries in the degree of
decentralism, as well as the processes through which sources of
political autonomy are put into practice by school boards. It
explores the interplay between context and policy-making at the
local level, and analyses how local discourses expressed by school
boards differ from national policies and trans-national influences.
The book's analysis of the country-cases and thematic chapters
shows that there are both important similarities and significant
differences in governance functions, power relations and
understandings of school board chairs and members between the
countries studied. Moreover, the book analyses the many ways in
which these similarities and differences affect the work context of
school leaders and teachers in the Nordic countries.
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