Avoiding Unambiguity: Tensions in School Governing

Justine Grønbæk Pors
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Justine Grønbæk Pors: Copenhagen Business School

Chapter 2 in Hybrid Forms of Governance, 2012, pp 30-45 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As in many countries, the Danish public school system has in recent years been involved in a variety of assessments and international comparisons. Organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have conducted a number of PISA investigations and reviews of specific subjects either comparing national school systems or explaining factors in single countries. In a political context as well as in a broader public sense these assessments have resulted in a great deal of attention with their findings of how Danish public schools lack a culture of evaluation. In fact the final conclusion of an OECD review from 2004 stated that a culture of evaluation ‘is the one single factor that it is most important to achieve if standards are to be raised’ (OECD 2004: 129).

Keywords: Political Organization; School Actor; Hybrid Form; School Governing; Governing Communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230363007_3

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