School Principal Re-Positioning in a System of Professional Relations: The Case of Newly Appointed Principals in Sweden

Autor/in	Jerdborg, Stina
Titel	School Principal Re-Positioning in a System of Professional Relations: The Case of Newly Appointed Principals in Sweden
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration and History, 55 (2023) 4, S.456-480 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jerdborg, Stina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0620
DOI	10.1080/00220620.2023.2217086
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Beginning Principals; Interprofessional Relationship; Administrator Role; Role Perception; Educational Change; Socialization; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Bildungsreform; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Schweden
Abstract	International research has focused on changing the criteria for being considered a successful school leader. Principals' recent professionalisation project, accelerated through education within the framing of New Public Management, might engender a role in conflict with teacher roles and needs further focus. This empirical study approaches newly appointed principals in how they experience their role and relate to other school professionals in an attempt to explicate historical traces of principals' positioning. The findings revealed principals' social contract to be resilient across time as their position within a system of relations changed. In practice, this meant becoming marginalised in attempts to fulfil their social contract. Embracing the position as a social agent of the teachers made new alliances possible. Principals' professional project is understood as linked to a system of relations and principals' role-taking over time, providing an analytical generalisation of how a 'war of position' might function concerning school professionals. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01