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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Directions for our investigation of the chain of governance and the agents; Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen
• Part I: Country reports
• 2. Danish superintendents are players in multiple networks; Lejf Moos, Klaus Kasper Kofod, Ulf Brinkkjær
• 3. Finnish superintendents are striving with the the changing operational environment; Mika Risku, Pekka Kanervio, Seppo Pulkkinen
• 4. Norwegian superintendents are mediators in the governance chain; Jan Merok Paulsen, Hans Christian Høyer
• 5. Superintendents in Sweden – structures, culture relations and leadership; Olof Johansson, Elisabet Nihlfors, Linda Jervik Steen, Sara Karlsson
• Part II: Thematic Chapters
• 6. Democracy in complex networks - political leaders and administrative professionals; Lejf Moos, Olof Johansson, Jan Merok Paulsen, Mona Strand, Mika Risku
• 7. Superintendent Leadership in hierarchy and network; Jan Merok Paulsen, Elisabet Nihlfors, Ulf Brinkkjær, Mika Risku
• 8. Political cultures; Klaus Kasper Kofod, Olof Johansson, Jan Merok Paulsen, Mika Risku
• 9.  Competence and understanding in the governing chain; Elisabet Nihlfors, Hans Christian Høyer, Klaus Kasper Kofod, Mika Risku
• 10. Governmentality through translation and sense-making; Lejf Moos, Jan Merok Paulsen, Olof Johansson, Mika Risku
• 11. Tendencies and trends; Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen.  .