Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moos, Lejf (Editor), Nihlfors, Elisabet (Editor), Paulsen, Jan Merok (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Educational Governance Research, 2
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Sociology of Education.

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...