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dc.contributor.authorAbrahamsen, Hedvig
dc.contributor.authorAas, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-22T23:52:23Z
dc.date.available2018-07-22T23:52:23Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn0022-0620
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00220620.2016.1092426
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/173287
dc.description.abstractSchool leadership as a key for school reforms has become a dominant theme in education, as demonstrated by a growing body of research during the last 15 years. Still, little attention has been paid to how changing international discourses on school leadership are translated into national public policy documents during the last decade. As such, this study provides additional insight into this field by analysing how Norwegian policy documents translate international discourses and re-contextualise national constructs of school leadership. Inspired by a critical approach, the authors address this issue by identifying discursive shifts in ideas about school leadership roles and practices. Based on an examination of four recent white papers on Norwegian education and school leadership, the authors argue that the policy documents constructed a tension between an international ‘explicit’ principal and a national ‘docile’ principal in 2003–2004, while recent documents construct a consensus-oriented, distributed leadership role for principals through the term ‘facilitating school leaders’. This may lead to contested interpretations as to how to perform school leadership in practice.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom68
dc.relation.ispartofpageto88
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Educational Administration and History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume48
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and philosophy of specific fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5002
dc.titleSchool leadership for the future: heroic or distributed? Translating international discourses in Norwegian policy documents
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorAas, Marit


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