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ERIC Number: EJ660260
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
Modern Educational Sagas: Legitimation of Ideas and Practices in Icelandic Education.
Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Geirsdottir, Gudrun; Finnbogason, Gunnar E.
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v46 n3 p265-82 Sep 2002
Describes changes in governance discourse and practices in Icelandic primary and secondary education in the late 1990s. Budget reform, curriculum changes, and school-based self-evaluation aimed at a greater financial and pedagogical accountability of school professionals, especially principals, has changed the role of principals and teachers in Iceland. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Governance, Principals, Self Evaluation (Groups), Teachers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Discourse; Iceland
Note: Special issue titled "Changing Education Governance in Nordic Welfare States: Finland, Iceland, and Sweden as Cases of an International Restructuring Movement."