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Sense-Making of Autonomy and Control: Comparing School Leaders in Public and Independent Schools in a Swedish Case
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Nordholm, Daniel; Arnqvist, Anders; Nihlfors, Elisabet – Journal of Educational Change, 2022
This article analyses how school leaders depict their autonomy and how they make sense of the relationship between autonomy and control. Attention is drawn to three leadership focuses: the pedagogical direction of the school, decision-making over the internal organisation, and school improvement work. The article integrates survey data on Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Responsibility, Institutional Autonomy, Power Structure
In the Eye of the Storm? Mapping out a Story of Principals' Decision-Making in an Era of Decentralisation and Re-Centralisation
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Nordholm, Daniel; Wermke, Wieland; Jarl, Maria – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore how Swedish principals experienced the decentralisation and re-centralisation reforms and how they affected principals' autonomy and decision-making capacity. Data were obtained from three surveys of Swedish principals, carried out in 2005, 2012 and 2019. The results show that principals experienced a high…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational History, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making
Academic Leadership and Governance of Professional Autonomy in Swedish Higher Education
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Puaca, Goran – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article concerns how spaces of professional autonomy are defined and formed in Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs). Swedish HEIs have become increasingly characterised by rivalling principles of management and professional autonomy. The relational aspects of how a professional habitus is formed and negotiated in relation to…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Higher Education, Professional Identity, Human Resources
Power Dynamics and Policy Actions in the Changing Landscape of Local School Governance
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Adolfsson, Carl-Henrik; Alvunger, Daniel – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2020
In this paper, we theorize on local school governance through a multi-method case study of a large-sized Swedish municipality by drawing on neo-institutional theory. In light of a changing governing landscape in Sweden in terms of a 're-centralization', new conditions between the state, the local education authorities (LEA) and the schools have…
Descriptors: Governance, Power Structure, School Districts, Case Studies
Contextualizing Teacher Autonomy in Time and Space: A Model for Comparing Various Forms of Governing the Teaching Profession
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Wermke, Wieland; Höstfält, Gabriella – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This study aims to develop a model for comparing different forms of teacher autonomy in various national contexts and at different times. Understanding and explaining local differences and global similarities in the teaching profession in a globalized world require conceptions that contribute to further theorization of comparative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Comparative Analysis, Governance
Structural and Organizational Contexts of the Teaching Profession.
Askling, Berit – 1991
A conceptual framework is presented for discussing teacher autonomy in a historical perspective against the background of a profound decentralization in the Swedish educational system introduced in the early 1980s. The way teachers use a broadened space of action cannot be fully understood unless a distinction is made between private and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Decentralization, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education