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School leaders in education
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Educational Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5086-6126
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Educational Studies (from 2013).
2020 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Today there are high expectations that principals will lead the improvement in Swedish schools and that students’ outcomes will increase. There is also a broad consensus that highly trained school leaders are the key to success and therefore school leader training is an important tool to support principals’ endeavours. One consequence of this development is that the national program for school leaders has become mandatory for newly appointed principals in Sweden. The participating principals need to set aside approximately 20 percent of their time to this three-year program. Since resources are allocated and expectations are high, we believe it is important to study if there are any tangible effects from the program’s efforts. The purpose of this ongoing research is to examine what the principals are experiencing during their time in the training program. We also want to study if the program is affecting the schools’ practices and the principals’ leadership Methods: In the research, we are following seven principals, six of whom began the program in the autumn of 2017 and one who started six months later. The data, in the form of interviews, are collected in three steps: 1) Individual interviews with the principals. These interviews were conducted just after the principal started the training program. During the same period, we also conducted group interviews with teachers and students. 2) Individual interviews with the principals after they had completed half the program. 3) A repeat of Step 1 after the principals completed the entire program. Step 3 also includes the group interviews with teachers and students. Currently, the first two steps have been completed.Theoretical framework: A school’s infrastructure is one way of describing its organization or internal life (Ekholm & Fransson, 1988), and it is the theoretical framework for the interview questions. It is also the framework used to analyse the material. Furthermore, the theor ofty of ‘ecologies of practice’ is applied (Kemmis, Wilkinson, Edwards-Groves, Hardy & Grootenboer, 2014), which allows investigating whether it is possible to distinguish some traces of the school leader program in the activities of the schools in question.Preliminary results: The study’s design is discussed in our presentation. Furthermore, some reflections are presented on what can be seen in the data so far

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020.
Keywords [en]
School leader, school leader training, ecologies of practice
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Educational Sciences
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Educational Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-89302OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-89302DiVA, id: diva2:1649704
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ICSEI 2020, 33rd International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Marrakech, Morocco, 6-10 January 2020
Available from: 2022-04-04 Created: 2022-04-04 Last updated: 2022-07-06Bibliographically approved

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