Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain (1st ed. 2016) (Educational Governance Research #2)

By: Lejf Moos and Elisabet Nihlfors and Jan Merok Paulsen

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Synopsis: This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is moving towards focusing on soft governance and social technologies as the preferred means of influences. Thus we rename it New Public Governance (NPG).

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319251066
Related ISBNs:: 9783319251042
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 09/13/19
Copyrighted By:: Springer International Publishing, Cham
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Lejf Moos
Edited by:: Elisabet Nihlfors
Edited by:: Jan Merok Paulsen