Titlebook: Local Education Policies; Comparing Sweden and Christine Hudson (Assistant Professor of Political Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

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Introductiont the international, national and local levels. Countries are becoming more inter-linked as political, economic, cultural and technological activities increasingly span the boundaries of states. Non-governmental actors, such as transnational companies, are playing an increasingly significant role in

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National School Policy Changes in Britain and Swedenpendent on the decisions taken centrally, and these form a general context for local education policies. National education policies establish goals, set rules, provide resources and specify how outcomes should be evaluated. This context may be both constraining and enabling for local decision-maker

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Local School Choice Policies in Swedeno national requirements, were streamlined in order to provide equal education for everyone, but also to facilitate changes of schools as a result of population mobility. However, other reasons for choosing a different school than the one nearby were not recognized. Pupils were expected to attend at

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Education and Local Development Policies in Swedener the objective is to establish a position in competition with other world cities, to handle the effects of the closure of a major local industry or to alter rural population decline, local authorities in the Western world define as their task to facilitate local economic growth. This is somewhat p

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In the Company of Schools: Schools and Local Development Strategies in Britainzation and the growth of the knowledge economy. The interplay of these tendencies is examined within the context of local education policy and local economic development. A weaving together of education and economic development as a consequence of the increasing importance of knowledge in the global

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Changed Leadership Roles in Swedish Schools strategies. Decentralization is thought to provide the means to cure a range of important problems, including bureaucratic rigidity, insensitivity to local needs, and lack of legitimacy and local democratic control. Even a brief review of such efforts, however, reveals that a wide variety of purpos

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School Markets and Locality: an Exploration of Difference in the English Education Market Placeus on a combination of markets and managerial devices as the route to raising the performance of schools ignore the complex, varied and sometimes subtle interplay between schools and the social, material and discursive environments within which they operate. I will argue that what managers and teach