Abstract
The focus of this book is educational governance at the local school district level seen in a cross-cultural perspective, which is based on national survey studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
The overarching research question that has guided our studies is: How are transnational influences and national policies transformed into local policy cultures when they meet the school boards? In all the Nordic countries, the municipalities are equivalent with the school district level. But the point is that school districts play a similar role as the interface between state policies and the schools.
In this chapter, we briefly introduce our perspectives on the transnational influences, as they can be seen in the case of the OECD. This serves as a basis for discussing the need for looking into local conditions for educational governance that meet the transnational influences. We argue that policy borrowing should be based on robust and thorough knowledge of the context of the policy provider and also of the policy borrower. We also introduce the content of the book: the country reports and thematic chapters.
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For example, WTO, World trade Organization; OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; IMF, International Monetary Fund; EU, European Union (especially ‘the Inner Market’ and the ‘Europe 2020’ statement); and the World Bank.
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Moos, L., Paulsen, J.M. (2014). Comparing Educational Governance. In: Moos, L., Paulsen, J. (eds) School Boards in the Governance Process. Educational Governance Research, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05494-0_1
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