Re-Centering the Critical Potential of Nordic School Leadership Research: Fundamental, But Often Forgotten Perspectives (Hardcover, 2020)

Part I: Introduction.- 1. Critical potential of Nordic school leadership research; Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen.- Part II: Challenges in policy context and reality: Perspectives on research.- 2. Forgetting our intellectual histories and the implications for educational professionals ; Helen M. Gunter.- 3. Local and global? Challenging the social epistemologies of the educational leadership field; Merete Storgaard.- Part III: Dilemmas in school leadership.- 4. The Press for Technical Rationality & Dilemmas of Professional Practice: Managing Education in a Pluralistic Institutional Environment; James Spillane & Jonathan Sun.- 5. Study environments - a neglected leadership concern; Eric Larsson & Pia Skott.- 6. Horizontal structures ? A fundamental but forgotten perspective for superintendents in school governance?; Cecilia Bjursell & Annika Engstrom.- Part IV: Data-informed decision making in school leadership.- 7. The struggle for data ? A ghost goes through the world ? a data ghost; Finn Wiedemann.- 8. Principals decision-making for organizing the educational organization; Tina Broms.- 9. Local evaluation practice as a mediating tool; Renata Svedlin.- Part V: Impact on school leadership.- 10. Leadership in upper secondary schools: Exploring new leadership roles and practices; Kristin Helstad & Hedvig Abrahamsen.- 11. The Impact of the University on Upper Secondary Education through academic subjects according to School leaders’ perceptions; Guðrun Ragnarsdottir & Jon Torfi Jonasson.- 12. Well-being, based on collective trust and accountability, as a fundamental and often forgotten perspective in school leadership; Ulf Leo, Roger Persson, Inger Arvidsson, Carita Hakansson.- Part VI: Discussion.- 13. Re-centering critical potentials of fundamental but often forgotten perspectives; Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen.