Session Information
26 SES 11 B, Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 26 SES 12 B
Contribution
Education is of fundamental value for a society. Education in the broad sense; to raise and foster a new generation of citizens in a global and local multicultural context. It is delicate to identify competences needed to achieve this mission in different contexts over time. An underlying question is what the purpose of education are and who is in power to decide how national decisions shall be understood and realized locally. In this chapter some, as we see it prerequisites for these questions will be discussed. Focus is on political and professional leader-ship on the local level that can have impact on the prerequisites for education. The empirical data is from research projects in four countries including board members in local school boards, superintendents and school leaders. The empirical data is analyzed on the basis of Hall´s (1990) description of how competence pro-cesses can come into action and Sandberg & Targama´s (1998) work of showing the importance of understanding to increase competence in organization. A hypothesis is that the better the interaction/cooperation is, built on knowledge and understanding, between politicians and pro-fessionals the better prerequisites there are for trust which extend the possibilities for people to act on one´s own responsibility.
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