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Research in Teaching and Teacher educationBergen June 13th 2012

Accountability under ambiguityReforming school and teacher education in Norway

Petter Aasen

POLICY

• A policy is typically described as a principle or rule to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s).

• Policy refers to the ´what` and the `why` generally adopted by governance bodies within public and private sector. A policy can be considered as a statement of intent or a commitment.

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POLITICAL PROFESSIONAL

CENTRAL

LOCAL

Expert steering

Professional st

eering

National stakeholders

Local stakeholders

POLITICS

• Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. Politics consists of social relations involving authority or power and refers to the regulation of affairs within a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.

• The concept of politics draws our attention to processes that define “who gets what, when and how”.


Tensions and contradictions


The Social dimension

• Education as a common good

• Equity as equality

• Patient approach to learning

• Education as an individual good

• Equity as equivalence

• Early interventions


Governance

• National steering

• Decentralization as delegation

• Local autonomy

• Decentralization as devolution


Systemic relation

• Central detailed regulations and control

• “Feeding the beast”

• State steering at a distance through empowering local authority

• Receiving support


Knowledge base

• Evidence-based practice

• Research-based solutions

• Efficient intervention • What works

• Practice-based evidence

• Experience-based solutions

• Professional reflection

• When and whom it works for


Content

• Knowledge • Competence

• Learning processes

• Competence

• Skills

• Documented learning outcome


Accountability

• The professional teacher/school leaders

• Trust

• Managerialism

• Technocracy


The politicalThe political in education refers to the fact that education procedures and practice – the questions of the 'what', the 'how', the 'where', and the 'when' in education practice – constantly includes priorities and decisions that include answers to questions like who ultimately gains the most from the ways our schools, and the curriculum and practices within them, are organized and operated.


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