Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain
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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).
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).
Demonstrates how superintendents are increasingly by-passed in the chain of educational governance Provides case studies on how Nordic superintendents are losing ground in the chain of educational governance Shows how municipal governance is shifting from the democratic sphere towards an administrative sphere Discusses the implications of superintendents being drawn into a performativity culture Reflects Nordic superintendents in an international perspective Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Lejf Moos
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Danish superintendents Finnish superintendents Superintendents’ motivational forces Swedish superintendents accountabilty - responsibility chairs and school leaders general public governance middle-municipal level network governance new institutionalism relations between politicians and administrators school boards and principals superintendents’ leadership practices transnational thinking New Public Management
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“The education systems of the Nordic countries – with their traditional commitment to Bildung, their conscious preparation of students for life in a democracy and their constant strivings for equality - have much to teach the rest of the world. Superintendents have been key players in fashioning these attributes.” (Peter Mortimore, Professor Emeritus, Richmond, England)
“One of many important conclusions of the book concerns the emptying of local democratic governing and influence that has taken place in most of the studied countries (Finland being the notable exception) when the local political level is bypassed in various ways ... .” (Lisbeth Lundahl, Professor, Umeå University, Sweden)
“Critical skills needed at the level of policymaking and its effects on implementation don’t lie in “knowing the right answers, but asking the right questions”. The right questions give rise to salient and insightful answers.” (Catherine Odora Hoppers, South African Research Chair in Development Education, University of South Africa)
“The authors of this compelling volume have lived the history of change and the tightening grip of a performativity culture. Historically, a signal strength of Nordic schools has been lateral support and collegiality.” (John MacBeath, Professor Emeritus, Cambridge, England)
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