Session Information
26 SES 10 A, Heading for the Future- Principalship beyond 2020 Implications for Research (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 26 SES 11 A
Contribution
Following 50 years of welfare schooling for Democratic ‘Bildung’ we have now entered the competitive state in education: The competency-goal-governed school-reform was agreed on in 2012 and is being implemented since 2014. This effective school is embedded in the political decisions, papers and minds, but much of the welfare state school is still living in the minds of teachers. This challenges school leaders who need to lead in the bipolar school, between the effective external demands and the democratic ‘Bildung’ internal longings. This situation gives us a once in a lifetime opportunity to look into a system, schools and leadership in major transitions. We may be able to find new ways of doing school, education and school leadership that cover and satisfies both poles. One of the challenges will be to get good understandings of the transnational and national governance of education and thus find relevant ways of translating transnational influences and best practices into useful ideas. Both sets of research may well ask for new research methods and dissemination methods where more aspects are integrative.
References
Moos, L. (2016) Danish School Leadership Between Welfare and Competition. In Helene Ärlestig, Christopher Day, Olof Johansson (Eds) A Decade of Research on School Principals: Cases from 24 countries (Dordrecht: Springer),
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