Leadership in Educational Systems

This research group focuses on professional change, development and collective learning among educational managers, and professionals in the educational system.

We are interested in broad themes as:  

  • National and international educational discourses  
  • Tensions and cooperation between levels in the educational system  
  • Quality, development, and assessment in educational practice 
  • Leadership and learning in the system  
  • Development and learning in professional communities 
  • Knowledge creation in complex systems 

We are more occupied with leadership in education in a broad sense, rather than educational management. Policy, contexts, systems, and tasks are in focus.  

Research- and developement interests

Three of our member are active researchers in KINDknow - Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures in two of three overarching research themes, theme 2: Systemic leadership and conditions for children in kindergarten and theme 3: Pedagogical innovation and co-creation and the project EX-PED-LAB.

Recent publications

Anne Grethe Sønsthagen (2020) Early childcare as arenas of inclusion: the contribution of staff to recognising parents with refugee backgrounds as significant stakeholders, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 28:3, 304-318, DOI: 10.1080/1350293X.2020.1755486 

Dadaczynski, K., Jensen, B.B., Viig, N.G., Sormunen, M., von Seelen, J., Kuchma, V. and Vilaça, T. (2020), "Health, well-being and education: Building a sustainable future. The Moscow statement on Health Promoting Schools", Health Education, Vol. 120 No. 1, pp. 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/HE-12-2019-0058 

Åvitsland, A., Ohna, S.E., Dyrstad, S.M., Tjomsland, H.E., Lerum, Ø. and Leibinger, E. (2020), "The process evaluation of a school-based physical activity intervention: influencing factors and potential consequences of implementation", Health Education, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/HE-01-2020-0004 

List of publications

Head of research group

bilde av Hege Fimreite

Hege Fimreite

Postdoctoral Fellow

Members:

External members of the University of Limerick:

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Research program

This research group is part of the research program Practice, Professionalism and Policy in Educational Research (PUF)