Educational Leadership at Municipality Level
The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and cu...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e7e9b2a5c87949b19ca3bd5c8a473126 2023-05-15T16:50:35+02:00 Educational Leadership at Municipality Level Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir Börkur Hansen 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.2760 https://doaj.org/article/e7e9b2a5c87949b19ca3bd5c8a473126 EN NO eng nor OsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan University https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2760 https://doaj.org/toc/2535-4051 doi:10.7577/njcie.2760 2535-4051 https://doaj.org/article/e7e9b2a5c87949b19ca3bd5c8a473126 Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, Vol 2, Iss 2-3 (2018) municipalities leadership role educational leadership educational governance national legislation policy in education Education (General) L7-991 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.2760 2022-12-31T00:56:21Z The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and curriculum guides—and identify themes by looking for specific words that are characteristic in leadership practices. The findings reveal that policy ends concerning educational leadership of municipalities are somewhat tacit in current national legislation. Yet, the roles and responsibilities that the state delegates to municipalities comprise leadership functions that are distributed in nature and, to a large extent, harmonize with desired leadership practices as emphasized in the literature. Legislation emphasizes comprehensive education, but also in-cludes signs of technocratic homogenization. In the discussion of our findings, we argue that the educational system is quite dependent on the political emphasis at each given time, making it difficult for both munic-ipalities and the state to facilitate a cohesive leadership emphasis. We suggest that closer attention to the local level, and a recognition of it as an important unit and agency for educational development, is of sig-nificant importance. These observations will be followed by a further investigation into the actual practice of leadership at the local level. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE) 2 2-3 56 71 |
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The purpose of this study is to explore the roles and responsibilities that national education legislation in Iceland imposes on municipalities in terms of leadership. A qualitative content analysis was applied to explore the relevant national legislation—that is, education acts, regulations, and curriculum guides—and identify themes by looking for specific words that are characteristic in leadership practices. The findings reveal that policy ends concerning educational leadership of municipalities are somewhat tacit in current national legislation. Yet, the roles and responsibilities that the state delegates to municipalities comprise leadership functions that are distributed in nature and, to a large extent, harmonize with desired leadership practices as emphasized in the literature. Legislation emphasizes comprehensive education, but also in-cludes signs of technocratic homogenization. In the discussion of our findings, we argue that the educational system is quite dependent on the political emphasis at each given time, making it difficult for both munic-ipalities and the state to facilitate a cohesive leadership emphasis. We suggest that closer attention to the local level, and a recognition of it as an important unit and agency for educational development, is of sig-nificant importance. These observations will be followed by a further investigation into the actual practice of leadership at the local level. |
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Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir Börkur Hansen |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level |
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Educational Leadership at Municipality Level |
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OsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan University |
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