Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Blending Trust and Control: A Challenge for School Superintendents
(Adam E. Nir, The Department of Education, The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
Chapter 2: The School District Superintendent in the United States of America
(Lars G. Björk, Theodore J. Kowalski and Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, University of Kentucky, KY, USA and others)
Chapter 3: Mediating Tensions Between State Control, Local Autonomy and Professional Trust: Norwegian School District Leadership in Practice
(Jan Merok Paulsen and Guri Skedsmo, Hedmark University College, and University of Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 4: Pedagogical Supervision and Superintendents in Poland: On the Way to the Quality of Education
(Joanna Madalińska-Michalak, University of Lodz, Poland)
Chapter 5: The Elusive Character of the School Superintendent Role: The Israeli Case
(Ronit Bogler, The Open University of Israel, Israel)
Chapter 6: The New Executives in a Landscape of Change: The Emerging Reality of Plural Controlled Schooling in England
(Philip A. Woods and Amanda Roberts, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Chapter 7: Danish Superintendents in a Complex World
(Lejf Moos, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Chapter 8: Looking for Superintendents in Australia: The Cases of Victoria and Western Australia
(David Gurr, Simon Clarke, Lawrie Drysdale and Helen Wildy, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Western Australia, Australia)
Chapter 9: Mapping the Terrain of Superintendency in Turkey: Structural, Institutional and Normative Features
(Kadir Beycioglu, Mehmet Sincar, Niyazi Özer, Celal Teyyar Uğurlu and Cevat Yıldırım, Dokuz Eylul University, University of Gaziantep, Inonu University, Cumhuriyet University, and Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey)
Chapter 10: District Education Officers (DEOs) in India: Between Bureaucracy and Democratization
(Rc Saravanabhavan, N. Muthaiah and Sheila Saravanabhavan, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA and others)
Chapter 11: The Finnish Superintendent
(Mika Risku and Pekka Kanervio, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Chapter 12: The Role of the Director of Education in Scottish Education
(Christine Forde, University of Glasgow, UK)
Chapter 13: The Swedish Superintendent in the Governing Structure of the School System
(Olof Johansson and Elisabet Nihlfors, University of UmeĂĄ, and University of Uppsala, Sweden)
Chapter 14: The Role of the District Director in Education Districts: A South African Perspective
(Earle Chesterton Smith and Johan Beckmann, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
About the Authors
Index