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The Legitimacy Paradox of Business Schools: Losing by Gaining?
2015
In recent years, many scholars have argued that business schools have jeopardized their legitimacy and identity. However, business schools have also been praised as a success story of higher educat...
The Many Faces of Special Education Within RTI Frameworks in the United States and Finland
2015
Response to intervention (RTI) can be considered an everyday practice in many parts of the United States, whereas, in Finland, only recently has a new framework for support in learning taken shape. Choosing Finland as the comparative partner for this policy paper is justified as its educational system has been widely referenced on the basis of good Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results. The results of the present comparative article showed first, that the U.S. RTI was primarily intended for diagnosing and preventing learning disabilities whereas the Finnish RTI is mainly an administrative structure for support. Second, the U.S. RTI includes clear definitions regardin…
Mitä rehtorit todella tekevät : etnografinen tapaustutkimus johtamisesta ja rehtorin tehtävistä peruskoulussa
2007
Aarne Mäkelä tutki väitöstyössään peruskoulun johtamista ja rehtorin tehtäviä. Tutkimus osoitti, että rehtorin tehtävät ovat muuttumassa. - Pitkän johtajakokemukseni aikana olen tunnistanut, että johtaminen on muuttunut, mutta muutoksen voimakkuus oli yllättävää. Erityisesti koulun selkärankana pidetyn pedagogisen johtamisen tehtäväalueen vähäinen osuus huolestuttaa, toteaa Mäkelä. Mäkelä osoitti, että nykyään rehtori joutuu entistä enemmän hoitamaan koulun yhteistyöverkostoihin liittyviä tehtäviä. Tällaisia ovat mm. lasten huoltajien, perhekotien, kiinteistönhuollon, sosiaali- ja terveysviranomaisten, pelastus- ja turvallisuusviranomaisten sekä muiden koulun sidosryhmien kanssa tehtävä ver…
Observing – Treating – Classifying: On the Educational Practice of Human Differentiation
2016
Abstract Sociological research often states the reproductive function of educational systems. Thus, students are differentiated according to their cultural capital and their social background. One central dimension of the selection process is the grading performed by teachers. The paper outlines a conceptional framework of dealing with this kind of human differentiation sociologically. It therefore gives insight into the prerequisites provided by the school administration and into the empirical organization of grading – from classroom assessment to teacher meetings where final decisions are taken. Two forms of objectifying students’ performances are presented: a social as well as a numerica…
Successful principalship in Norway: sustainable ethos and incremental changes?
2009
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore whether and how success has been sustained over time in schools which were identified as being successful five years ago.Design/methodology/approachThree schools were selected for a revisit, and the sample included two combined schools (grade 1‐10) and one upper secondary school (grade 11‐13). In two schools the same principals were still in post, and in the third school there had recently been a change in principalship. Interviews with the principal and a group of teachers at each school were the major source of new data. Questions that guided the study: What structural and cultural changes can be identified within the schools compared with fi…
La régulation de l'éducation en France et dans les pays anglo-saxons. Une comparaison
2004
The autonomy of the schools increased in most educational systems for the last twenty years. So, educational systems had to implement regulation policies in order to orient the action of the agents towards the nation's aims. While England and the United States implemented a regulation by results (incentives linked to school's or teacher's results), France relies on a regulation by process (incentives to implement ‘pedagogical forms' which are supposed to be relevant). These two policies are described, then they are confronted with regard to their internal coherence and tensions, with in mind the question of the French model being a viable one, able to offer an option to the anglo-saxon mode…