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Mikä meitä ohjaa? : artikkelikokoelma Jyväskylässä 5.-6.9.2005 järjestetystä korkeakoulutuksen tutkimuksen IX symposiumista

2006

Artikkelikokoelma Jyväskylässä 5.–6.9.2005 järjestetystä korkeakouluksen tutkimuksen IX symposiumista

Onko yliopisto organisaatio vai instituutio?

2022

Artikkelissa keskustellaan yliopiston luonteesta kahdesta näkökulmasta käsin, jotka ovat yliopisto organisaationa ja akatemian intellektuaalisten traditioiden kantama korkeakoulutuksen instituutio. Artikkeli analysoi sitä, millä tavalla nämä kaksi näkökulmaa eroavat toisistaan, ja mitä näistä eroista seuraa. Artikkelissa keskustellaan myös siitä, millaisia historiallisia kerrostumia ja niiden tukemia eettisiä koodistoja yliopistoista löytyy. nonPeerReviewed

Legitimations of Finnish education export–exploring the plurality of guiding principles

2021

This paper explores the legitimation of Finnish education export (EE) activities linked to higher education institutions. As a small non-English speaking country with only recent involvement in the EE market, Finland provides an underexplored context to consider the legitimation of overseas, fee-based educational services from the perspective of EE providers. In this qualitative case study comprising two Finnish EE endeavours, we draw on convention theory to argue that the legitimation of education export is based on multiple roles of such export, not just on generating revenue for the provider institution. We show that legitimations are linked to multiple guiding principles, illustrated in…

Three orientations for understanding educational autonomy: school principals’ voices from Australia, Finland, and Jamaica

2021

This paper reports on the findings from a multi-site case study conducted in Australia, Finland and Jamaica which explored the conditions that enabled and constrained the autonomy of school principals. Systematic data collection was carried out in the form of interviews of school principals and the data was analysed using a qualitative approach. The analysis indicates that: (1) school principals’ practices are prefigured by the peculiarities of historical trajectories and ideological traditions enmeshed in schooling sites; (2) these prefiguring arrangements in turn influence varying realisations of autonomous decision making practices across national sites; and (3) even in the expression of…

An assessment of COVID-19’s impact on Finnish University Leadership

2021

This article maps the management actions that Finnish universities have taken during the COVID-19 pandemic and studies how managers in Finnish higher education coped during the crisis and how they feel about it. The article uses action mapping and a survey that was administered to top- and mid-level managers at Finnish universities, and the findings highlight the importance of collegial coordination and maintenance work abilities among managers. publishedVersion Peer reviewed

University-wide, top-down curriculum reform at a Finnish university: perceptions of the academic staff

2021

This study examines academic staff’s perceptions of a university-wide, top-down curriculum reform in terms of the management of the reform, the support provided by the university’s administration, and the utilisation of the university’s guidelines. Differences between faculties are also scrutinised. The study was conducted at a multidisciplinary public research university in Finland using the survey method. The data (n = 394) consisted of academic staff’s responses to multiple-choice and open-ended questions. Correlation coefficients, exploratory factor analyses, and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were utilised to analyse the quantitative data. Responses to the open-ended questions …

The Chain of Control in Results-based Management in Finnish Universities*

2021

This chapter deals with the results-based management implemented in Finnish universities as a part of the neo-liberal managerial idea of a “corporate university.” Analyzing the entire chain of control – from the government level (planning) to the university level (performance management) before finally addressing the personnel level (perceptions of control) – the chapter acknowledges the conflicting views of different stakeholders and the potential for confrontation concerning the different goals as reflected by performance measurement. The key findings of the chapter indicate that the chain of control does not function as planned – that the perceptions and intentions of control among stake…

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…

Public to private: Narratives of change in the wake of European higher education decentralisation

2023

Technical Identity in a MergerProcess : Between a Rock and a Hard Place

2020

University mergers are sites of self-reflection where the identities of the institutions in question are juxtaposed and challenged. We examine the organisational identity of a Finnish single-faculty technical university in the context of a merger process with a comprehensive multi-disciplinary university and a university of applied sciences. Through interview data, we shed light on the self-conception of the technical university compared with the other higher education institutions. According to our analysis, the identity of the technical university is constructed and represented in relation to the aspects of society and entrepreneurialism, academic discipline and, particularly, the technic…