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School Leadership in Denmark: Leading Education and Leading a School

2023
In this chapter, we elucidate tendencies in and prerequisites for school leadership in Denmark. School leadership is often constructed within a universal and normative-prescriptive framework, and currently greater pressure has been placed on school leaders in the pursuit of political ambitions.
Merete Storgaard, Lars Frode Frederiksen
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School Leadership

2011
Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process. How does the school administrator balance all the needs of the various groups and still remain true to the ultimate, though most powerless constituency: the students?
Benjamin Piltch, Terrence Quinn
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Leadership for IT in Schools

2008
Technology leadership is a significant predictor of effective IT use in classrooms. The desired outcome should be an effective learning environment for teachers in which they can develop their technology-enhanced instructional practices. Such an environment involves IT leaders working together to determine a vision for IT use and to provide the ...
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School leadership

Advocates of school leadership do not propose a one-size-fits-all form of leadership; whether it is instructional, transformational, or distributed leadership, it must take into account aspects of the contextual factors. The standards movement is focused on understanding outcomes and goals for learning, but often with no clear strategy for ...
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Conceptual Perspectives on School Leadership

2012
Leadership has become a concept of increasing importance in the education literature. Stacks of books and articles have been written about leadership—about how to define the concept, what it should comprise and what effects it has. Despite the many researchers and the many definitions of leadership that appear in the literature, there remains very ...
Krüger, Meta, Scheerens, Jaap
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Successful Nordic School Leadership

2013
With the starting point in the 'International Successful School Principal Project' that looked into how success had been sustained over a 5-year period, we found that the governing structures of schools, the definitions of quality, the methods to measure quality and the criteria of success had changed to a certain degree.
Moos, Lejf, Johansson, Olof, Skedsmo, Guri   +2 more
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International schools’ leadership and Christianity

Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a secular educational franchise, educating the globally advantaged and potential future leaders. Drawing on Bourdieu, this article involves original interpretivist research, reviewing data surrounding the international IB school and its educational leadership.
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The Professionalisation of Nordic School Leadership

2013
This chapter deals with the ongoing neoliberally influenced educational policy process and how this process affect the (re)professionalisation of school leadership in the Nordic countries. The neoliberal process puts an increased focus on school leadership, accountability, quality assurance and evaluation.
Frederiksen, Lars Frode, Møller, Jorunn, Ärlestig , Helene, Uljens, Michae   +3 more
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School Leadership and System Leadership

The Educational Forum, 2005
Geoff Southworth, Heather Du Quesnay
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International schools: leadership reviewed

Journal of Research in International Education, 2018
This article provides a systematic review of research on leadership in international schools, though not focusing on International Baccalaureate schools which are the focus of a separate paper. International schools are autonomous, private bodies that cater to the globally advantaged.
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