Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain

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).

Summary

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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Lejf Moos (Editor), Jan Merok Paulsen (Editor), Elisabet Nihlfors (Editor), Elisabe Nihlfors (Editor), Jan Merok Paulsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system
• EAN: 9783319797359
• ISBN: 978-3-31-979735-9
• Pages: 334
• Illustrations: XX, 334 p. 14 illus., 7 illus. in color.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm
• Weight (packing): 540 g
• Series: Educational Governance Research > .2; Educational Governance Research
• Subjects: Pädagogik, Soziologie, B, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Education, Teaching, Lehrerausbildung, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Organization and Leadership, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Social research & statistics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Educational sociology, School management and organization, School administration, governance network, de-politisation, neo-liberal discourses