Editors:
- Shows how actors at various levels contribute to support, control and interventions
- Presents the variety and similarities between agencies impact on schools in various countries
- Contains both theoretical and descriptive analyses
Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 13)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Nordic Countries
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The Middle European Countries
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The North American States – Canada and the US
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About this book
This book describes and analyses the organisation, functions and development of national educational authorities and agencies and the influence they have on local schools in 20 countries around the world. It examines the governing chain in the respective countries from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It does so against the background of the stability and rigour of the governing chains having been challenged, with some researchers considering the chain to be broken. However, the view that comes to the fore in this book is that the chain is still present and contains both vertical implementation structures and intervening spaces for policy interpretation.
How schools become successful is important for the individual students as well as the local community and the national state. A vast quantity of research has looked at what happens in schools and classrooms. At the same time, national governance and politics as well as local prerequisites are known to exert influence on schools and their results to a high degree. Societal priorities, problems and traditions provide variety in how governance is executed. This book provides an international overview of the similarities and differences between educational agencies and how their work influences schools.
Editors and Affiliations
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Centre for Principal Development, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Helene Ärlestig, Olof Johansson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Educational Authorities and the Schools
Book Subtitle: Organisation and Impact in 20 States
Editors: Helene Ärlestig, Olof Johansson
Series Title: Educational Governance Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38759-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38758-7Published: 29 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38761-7Published: 29 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38759-4Published: 28 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-9548
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 420
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Schools and Schooling