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Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership - Is there a Nordic Model? (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership - Is there a Nordic Model? (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Studies in Educational Leadership, 19
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This book explores to what extent transnational influences change
national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational
systems. It provides country cases and thematic chapters that give
nuanced insights into the influence of transnational agencies on
national governance and discourses. It describes how national
discourses and regulation influences school leadership values,
culture and practice, in competition with traditional values. The
transnational and global discourse on educational leadership is
mostly formed according to Anglo-American thinking and tradition.
Pivotal foundations of this discourse are strong hierarchical
societies/class societies with liberal democracies, and clearly
streamed education systems. The Nordic discourse, however, builds
on a more equal society and flat hierarchies with participatory
democracy, and on comprehensive schooling with strong local
community roots. Leadership thinking and practices are formed by
the culture and context they are part of: they are primarily shaped
by the national/local values, traditions and practices, and only
partially shaped by politics, discourses and literature. Due to the
fact that a great deal of the literature that is being used in the
Nordic contexts is of Anglo-American origin and many of the
research projects have Anglo-American foundations, it is difficult
to distinguish the sources for leadership thinking and practice.
This book distinguishes the Nordic from the Anglo-American thinking
and presents important findings and arguments for leadership
practitioners inside as well as outside the Nordic countries.
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