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Finding the Balance between Collaboration and Autonomy among School Nurses in Interactions with Schools
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Helleve, Arnfinn; Midthassel, Unni Vere; Federici, Roger Andre – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
In Norway, new national guidelines for school service emphasize the importance of establishing structured collaboration with schools. Nevertheless, few studies have explored the characteristics of such collaboration. The purpose of the present study is to explore how principals, teachers, and school nurses collaborate and to identify barriers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Nurses, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Early Childhood Centre Directors Coping with Stress: Firefighters and Oracles
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Kristiansen, Elsa; Rydjord Tholin, Kristin; Bøe, Marit – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: Early childhood education (ECE) centre directors have to meet various leadership demands at present, and this has become even more important in a time of extensive policy changes. There is little research on work-related stress from the perspective of ECE directors. The purpose of this study was therefore to enhance one's knowledge of (a)…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Administrators, Administrator Responsibility
Case-Based Leadership Learning: How to Improve Work-Related Stress in Early Childhood Education Centre Directors
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Bøe, Marit; Kristiansen, Elsa; Rydjord Tholin, Kristin – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
The aim of this article is to investigate how case method can promote leadership learning and coping with stress. An exploratory qualitative investigation was undertaken to study 57 early childhood education centre directors' course evaluations from the National Leadership Program through an online survey done between 2020 and 2021. With respect…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Coping, Stress Variables, Communities of Practice
Managing Multilingualism on State Websites: How Institutional Employees Explain Language Choice
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Berezkina, Maimu – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
The purpose of this study is to understand how institutional language managers make and legitimize decisions about language choice on state websites. The focus lies on state institutions in two technologically advanced European nation-states: Estonia and Norway. The analysis is empirically based on interviews with employees at the institutions who…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Web Sites, Decision Making
Language Policy and Practice in Multilingual Production Workplaces
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Lønsmann, Dorte; Kraft, Kamilla – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
Transnational mobility results in a diversification of languages and cultures in the workplace. A common means of managing this diversity is to introduce language policies that often privilege English or the locally dominant language(s). In contrast, managing their everyday working lives may require employees to draw on a range of multilingual and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Work Environment, Power Structure
Reframing Educational Leadership in the Perspective of Dilemma.
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Moller, Jorunn – 1994
This paper describes the dilemmas of leadership experienced by principals and superintendents in Norway. The term "dilemma" refers to contradictory orientations that these educational leaders experienced in their job activities. Dilemmas are categorized in terms of legality, which pertains to the formal steering of the schools, or in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Decentralization