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Amanda Keddie; Jill Blackmore; Katrina MacDonald – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
The articulation of school autonomy into practice nationally, regionally and locally is highly situated in terms of what it enables or impedes with regard to the professional autonomy of principals and teachers. Principal autonomy does not necessarily mean greater teacher professional autonomy. In this paper, we draw on a three-year qualitative…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Institutional Autonomy, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making
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
Krawczyk, Stanislaw; Szadkowski, Krystian; Kulczycki, Emanuel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Our study examines the discursive construction of academic subjectivity within the context of the current reforms of academia, driven by the forces of economization and metricization. We focus in particular on the construction of two models of top researchers. Drawing from the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, we call these models 'autonomous' and…
Descriptors: Researchers, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
Skerritt, Craig – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
A significant paradox of school autonomy is that it tends to constrain the autonomy of teachers, instead subjecting them to the increased controlling of their work, heightened monitoring, and greater accountability. This paper draws on interview data to show how teachers in accountability-driven and business-like schools face three different but…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Accountability, Observation
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
Mesay Gerbi Bogale; Jeilu Oumer Hussien – Educational Planning, 2024
This study aims to assess the practice of institutional autonomy at Jimma University in Ethiopia. The study employed a mixed approach by collecting research data through a questionnaire, semi-structured interview, and document analysis. Two hundred and thirty-two randomly selected instructors and academic leaders were contacted through the…
Descriptors: State Universities, Research Universities, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
Alajmi, Munirah – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to explore Kuwaiti public school principals' experiences in relation to autonomy and accountability after the implementation of the School Education Quality Improvement Project, which aimed to increase the autonomy and accountability of Kuwaiti public schools. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopted a qualitative…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Accountability, Principals, School Administration
Kerssens, Niels; van Dijck, José – Harvard Educational Review, 2022
In this essay, Niels Kerssens and José van Dijck discuss the implications of platformization on the key public value of pedagogical autonomy in K-12 education. They focus on two interconnected concerns: how the integration of education into a global digital infrastructure contests the institutional pedagogical autonomy of schools and how the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Professional Autonomy, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Research
Välimaa, Jussi – European Education, 2021
This article analyzes the origins of generalized trust in Finnish society and how this relates to trust in education. The study was based on a historical analysis of the role of education in building a Finnish society and nation state. The author discusses the development of a Nordic welfare state and analyzes the relationships between generalized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Trust (Psychology), Role of Education
Entrepreneurial Leadership Behaviour of Primary School Principals across Europe: A Comparative Study
Balasi, Aikaterini; Iordanidis, George; Tsakiridou, Eleni – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: To improve school organisational performance and innovativeness, and meet diverse student needs, school leaders should be innovative, risk-takers and proactive, thus applying entrepreneurial practices/strategies and market mechanisms. This study aims to investigate, from a schoolteacher's perspective, the degree of entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
Rónay, Zoltán; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
As scholars we navigate in the fast changing and demanding research environment. The pressure to produce tangible outputs, secure funding, and undertake international collaborations has high implications on individual researchers' work and well-being. The issues brought forefront in scholarly literature showcase the impact of research pressures on…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Productivity, Educational Research
Ertem, Hasan Yücel – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
Academic freedom has a special significance for universities within the context of higher education. However, it is fair to say that the concept of academic freedom within the Turkish literature is not well developed either conceptually or methodologically. The purpose of this study is to map the existing research and scholarship on academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Freedom, Content Analysis, Universities
Mekonnen, Geberew Tulu; Kilpatrick, Sue; Kenny, John – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
This study explored academics' and institutional leaders' perception of the empowerment of various actors in Ethiopian higher education institutions. Little is known about university autonomy in Ethiopian higher education in the context of the Bologna Process. Three public universities were selected from the 31 public universities using a…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, College Faculty, Administrator Attitudes, Higher Education
Kobakhidze, M. Nutsa; Samniashvili, Lela – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
In Georgia, the question of academic freedom emerged only after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and its universities could begin reckoning with a heavy past of ideological pressure, censorship, governmental control and top-down management. Despite official declarations of the right to academic freedom and its…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Change, Academic Freedom, Foreign Countries
Robert M. Higgins – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study explored a contemporary period of Japanese higher education policy planning that adopted internationalisation of higher education as a metanarrative for sociocultural change in Japan. These wider societal pressures have over a period of time contributed to increasing institutional resistance to top-down policy initiatives. Further,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Higher Education, Professional Autonomy