The Autonomy Paradox Teachers Perceptions Of Self Governance Across Europe

Author : Wieland Wermke,Maija Salokangas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030656027

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The Autonomy Paradox: Teachers’ Perceptions of Self-Governance Across Europe by Wieland Wermke,Maija Salokangas Pdf

What do we mean when we speak about teacher autonomy? How free are teachers to go about their work? To answer these complex questions the authors asked thousands of teachers in four national contexts: in Finland, Ireland, Germany and Sweden, what they think autonomy looks like. The resulting book examines teacher autonomy theoretically and empirically, comparing teachers’ perceptions of their professional autonomy. Utilizing a mixed method approach the authors combine data from a large-scale questionnaire study, teacher interviews, lesson and meeting observations, and workshops that brought together teachers from the four participating countries. All this engagement with teachers revealed that simply increasing their professional autonomy might not lead to desired outcomes. This is because, from a teachers’ point of view, increased decision-making capacity brings further complexity and risk to their work, and it may instead lead to anxiety, self-restriction, and the eventual rejection of autonomy. These surprising conclusions challenge the increasingly orthodox view that increased autonomy is a desirable end in itself. This is what the authors call the autonomy paradox.

Author : Wieland Wermke,Maija Salokangas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030656039

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The Autonomy Paradox: Teachers' Perceptions of Self-Governance Across Europe by Wieland Wermke,Maija Salokangas Pdf

What do we mean when we speak about teacher autonomy? How free are teachers to go about their work? To answer these complex questions the authors asked thousands of teachers in four national contexts: in Finland, Ireland, Germany and Sweden, what they think autonomy looks like. The resulting book examines teacher autonomy theoretically and empirically, comparing teachers' perceptions of their professional autonomy. Utilizing a mixed method approach the authors combine data from a large-scale questionnaire study, teacher interviews, lesson and meeting observations, and workshops that brought together teachers from the four participating countries. All this engagement with teachers revealed that simply increasing their professional autonomy might not lead to desired outcomes. This is because, from a teachers' point of view, increased decision-making capacity brings further complexity and risk to their work, and it may instead lead to anxiety, self-restriction, and the eventual rejection of autonomy. These surprising conclusions challenge the increasingly orthodox view that increased autonomy is a desirable end in itself. This is what the authors call the autonomy paradox.

Author : Jesper Eckhardt Larsen,Barbara Schulte,Fredrik W. Thue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000521313

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Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model by Jesper Eckhardt Larsen,Barbara Schulte,Fredrik W. Thue Pdf

Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model examines the cultural distinctiveness of the Nordic teaching profession and teacher training compared to examples from Europe and North America. The book explores the concept of these ‘teacher cultures’ as various dimensions of professional identities, recruitment patterns, teachers’ social status, values and knowledge. It considers how Nordic teachers ́ socio-cultural backgrounds and their shifting societal roles compare with continental European examples, analysing the societal consequences of teacher cultures for the current Nordic welfare states. Offering a unique focus on teachers, the book uses a shared comparative and historical approach to add new knowledge to the analysis of global convergence and divergence in educational systems. The book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, educational policy, the sociology of education and the history of education. It will also be of interest to policy makers, teacher educators and school leaders. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Tine S. Prøitz,Petter Aasen,Wieland Wermke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031369704

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From Education Policy to Education Practice by Tine S. Prøitz,Petter Aasen,Wieland Wermke Pdf

This open access book addresses the complex interrelations between education policy and education practice developed under new ways of governance. It illuminates the nexuses of the interrelated fields of education policy and education practice including the characteristics of these relationships. The book offers a selection of cases with varied approaches to the question of how different actors and stakeholders are situated in contemporary policy and practice nexuses. The cases presented includes theoretical and conceptual studies; historical studies; ethnographic studies; and studies combining empirical interview data and quantitative data. The book shows what constitutes the contemporary nexuses in education and discusses the need to re-consider how we in education research approach policy and practice in the interface between structure and agency for the future developments in the education policy-practice nexus.

Author : Eva Forsberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030752637

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Peer Review in an Era of Evaluation by Eva Forsberg Pdf

This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical contributions on various peer review practices with relevance for the scientific community and higher education institutions worldwide. Consisting of three parts, the editors and contributors examine the history, problems and developments of peer review, as well as the specificities of various peer review practices. In doing so, this book gives an overview on and examine peer review , and asks how it can move forward. Eva Forsberg is Professor of Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses education governance and evaluation, academic work and the interface between educational policy, practice and research. Lars Geschwind is Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His main research interests are higher education policy, institutional governance, academic leadership and academic work. Sara Levander is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests are higher education, academic work and faculty evaluation in academic recruitment and promotion. Wieland Wermke is Associate Professor in Special Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research interest focuses on comparative education methodology, and teacher practice at different levels of education.

Author : Clayton Singer LaCoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015078812933

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Teacher Autonomy by Clayton Singer LaCoe Pdf

Teacher autonomy can lead to either exciting or vacuous learning experiences for students. Therefore, it is of critical import that school leaders understand the complexities associated with teacher autonomy. In this book, Dr. Clay LaCoe examines how teachers view autonomy and whether or not the accountability associated with high stakes testing influences teachers' perceptions of autonomy. Researchers have tended to view teacher autonomy as a unitary concept. This book will expand the knowledge base by decomposing autonomy and deepening our understanding of how high stakes accountability affects teachers' perceptions of their own autonomy. First, a model is proposed in which autonomy is decomposed into six distinct sub-components: autonomy over curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, professional development, student discipline, and classroom environment. Second, the research examines the effects of external accountability on teacher autonomy by quantitatively and qualitatively comparing the perceptions of possessed and desired autonomy of teachers who are direct targets of external accountability to those same perceptions held by teachers who are not direct targets of external accountability. The results show that the six sub-component model of teacher autonomy provides a solid framework to understand the complex nature of teacher autonomy. The findings further indicate that, both quantitatively and qualitatively, there are no fundamental differences in how the teachers who are differentially targets of external accountability perceive their levels of possessed or desired autonomy. Although external accountability may affect the amount of autonomy teachers perceive they have or desire, this effect is not dependent on the level of external accountability faced by teachers. The results also show that teachers generally desire more autonomy than they perceive they already possess. The results inform school leaders about the complex nature of teacher autonomy and how leaders can leverage the power of teacher autonomy to make schools better places for children to learn and grow. Teacher Autonomy is an important book for collections in education.

Author : Romeo V. Turcan,John E. Reilly,Larissa Bugaian
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1349552127

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(Re)Discovering University Autonomy by Romeo V. Turcan,John E. Reilly,Larissa Bugaian Pdf

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.

Author : Romeo V. Turcan,John E. Reilly,Larissa Bugaian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137388728

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(Re)Discovering University Autonomy by Romeo V. Turcan,John E. Reilly,Larissa Bugaian Pdf

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.

Author : Ulf Blossing,Gunn Imsen,Lejf Moos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400771253

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The Nordic Education Model by Ulf Blossing,Gunn Imsen,Lejf Moos Pdf

This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social class, abilities, gender, or ethnicity. Against this background, The Nordic Education Model traces the rise of neo-liberal policies that have been enacted by those who believe the School for All ideology does not produce the knowledge and skills that students need to succeed in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace. It examines the conflict between these two ideas and shows how neo-liberal technologies affect the Nordic model in different ways. The authors also show how social technologies are being interpreted in different ways in actual school practices. This process of translating national regulations into internal sense builds on the values in the culture to which they are introduced. In the end, this book reveals that a Nordic model can constitute a delicate balance between traditional values, institutionalized practices, and contemporary, neo-liberal forms of governance and policies. It may be argued from a new institutional perspective that the main structures of the Nordic educational model will sustain as long as the deeply rooted Nordic culture survives in the globalised society.

Author : Walter Berka,Jan De Groof,Hilde Penneman,European Association for Education Law and Policy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9041113118

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Autonomy in Education by Walter Berka,Jan De Groof,Hilde Penneman,European Association for Education Law and Policy Pdf

The push towards greater autonomy is one of the three main trends in every modern educational policy, alongside quality assurance and quality evaluation techniques and the need to devote attention to special — and often disadvantaged — target groups. It is, however, difficult to derive a unified concept of `autonomy’ from the comparative indicators which are published on a regular basis and it has emerged that there are significant differences depending on the specific area and the administrative organisation of education in the country in question. During the discussions of the annual Congress of the European Association for Education Law and Policy (ELA) in Salzburg (1998) it was apparent that autonomy has to be considered in its various applications. Autonomy for school boards is realised through management, administrative mechanisms, management of staff and pedagogical options. Autonomy of administration requires competence, the willingness to establish an autonomous administration and awareness of each party’s responsibility in the educational process. The contents of this Yearbook are an answer to the question of how legislatures are responding to the trend towards greater responsibility, decentralisation and autonomy. It is an overview of the efforts made by the Member States of the European Union to apply the principle of subsidiarity.

Author : Maria Erss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN : 9949292441

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The Politics of Teacher Autonomy in Estonia, Germany, and Finland by Maria Erss Pdf

Author : Maija Salokangas,Mel Ainscow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315444062

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Inside the Autonomous School by Maija Salokangas,Mel Ainscow Pdf

Over recent years, education systems across the globe have experimented with the concept of the autonomous school. This takes a variety of forms and the schools involved have different titles, such as charter schools in the USA, academies in England, free schools in Sweden and independent public schools in Australia. As this radical trend in policy gains momentum, Inside the Autonomous School considers whether the model is achieving its desired aims. Drawing on evidence from an in-depth, longitudinal study of an academy located in an urban district in England, this book traces the various developments which took place in the school on its journey from ‘failing’, to achieving an inspection rating of ‘outstanding’. The authors present a rich, first-hand account of the impacts that various policies and practices have had on the autonomous school and at the same time, situate their accounts and analyses within a wider national and international context. This leads them to consider what can be done to ensure that school autonomy consistently promotes excellence and equity within education systems. A fascinating read and invaluable resource for practitioners, researchers and policy makers in the field of education, Inside the Autonomous School sheds much needed light on an increasingly established policy which is set to have far-reaching effects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373732

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.

Author : Charles F. Sabel,Jonathan Zeitlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199572496

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Experimentalist Governance in the European Union by Charles F. Sabel,Jonathan Zeitlin Pdf

This book brings together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of European and American scholars to analyze the core theoretical features of the EU's new experimentalist governance architecture and explore its empirical development across a series of key policy domains.

Author : Richard M. Ingersoll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674038959

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Who Controls Teachers' Work? by Richard M. Ingersoll Pdf

Schools are places of learning but they are also workplaces, and teachers are employees. As such, are teachers more akin to professionals or to factory workers in the amount of control they have over their work? And what difference does it make? Drawing on large national surveys as well as wide-ranging interviews with high school teachers and administrators, Richard Ingersoll reveals the shortcomings in the two opposing viewpoints that dominate thought on this subject: that schools are too decentralized and lack adequate control and accountability; and that schools are too centralized, giving teachers too little autonomy. Both views, he shows, overlook one of the most important parts of teachers' work: schools are not simply organizations engineered to deliver academic instruction to students, as measured by test scores; schools and teachers also play a large part in the social and behavioral development of our children. As a result, both views overlook the power of implicit social controls in schools that are virtually invisible to outsiders but keenly felt by insiders. Given these blind spots, this book demonstrates that reforms from either camp begin with inaccurate premises about how schools work and so are bound not only to fail, but to exacerbate the problems they propose to solve.