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Educational Governance: Politics, Administration and Professionalism

Jan Merok PaulsenPekka KanervioElisabet NihlforsSeppo PulkkinenLejf Moos

subject

HierarchyPoliticsSocial technologyState (polity)RestructuringCorporate governancePolitical scienceHuman resource managementmedia_common.quotation_subjectPublic administrationAdministration (government)media_common

description

The current restructuring of Nordic educational governance systems is creating new relationships between the state, local authorities and schools and, therefore, between politicians, managers and educational professionals. With inspiration from transnational agencies – primarily the OECD – new chains of governance are being created. Some elements of governance are being de-centralised, whilst other elements are being re-centralised. The couplings of economies, human resource management and operations are being loosened while at the same time the links between an educational content, aims and accountabilities are being tightened. This tendency has also led/made many municipalities to restructure the municipal political and administrative system into a more steep hierarchy.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05494-0_6