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Education Governance in Transition: An Introduction.
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Lindblad, Sverker; Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Simola, Hannu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2002
Presents concepts and research problems dealing with education governance and social inclusion and exclusion. Considers education restructuring, as a recent international movement, as a combination of transitions in governing and new managerialism. Makes the case that it is necessary to understand the system of reasoning in order to capture the…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Modern Educational Sagas: Legitimation of Ideas and Practices in Icelandic Education.
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Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Geirsdottir, Gudrun; Finnbogason, Gunnar E. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 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…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration
An Inevitable Progress? Educational Restructuring in Finland, Iceland, and Sweden at the Turn of the Millennium.
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Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Lindblad, Sverker; Simola, Hannu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2002
Discusses how current changes in the system of reasoning about education in Finland, Iceland, and Sweden are characterized by culturally woven patterns in high marketization strategies are introduced as technically effective devices both for educating the best and to increase inclusion. The system of reason presupposes that the neo-liberalist…
Descriptors: Culture, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education