Research on Educational Leadership (REL)
Education, learning, leadership and contexts where these concepts can be applied to are the core of the research environment Educational Leadership. This means that research objects are present in pre-schools and schools as well as in other parts of society.
Leadership forms many levels of politics, policy and governance and is expressed in various institutional, organizational or informal contexts. This research environment is interested in how leadership is formulated, transformed and interpreted in different contexts. Here concepts such as sustainable development, democracy, equity and humanity constitute important starting points. Situations in which leadership and learning are the focus can often be studied from several scientific perspectives; both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
As it is the ambition to contribute to knowledge on the relationship between education, leadership and learning, the research group works with transdisciplinary approaches where different theoretical and methodological starting points meet. What unites this research environment is, however, an interest in leadership practice and the conditions that underpin and limit leadership.
The Educational Leadership Research Environment was developed from the STEP Group (Research Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy). STEP was initially started by Professor Ulf P. Lundgren in 2000. The research focused on socialization and education, in particular on organization, sampling and legitimacy of knowledge in educational institutions.
Contact
Katina Thelin, Daniel Nordholm,
Our links to education
Several members of the group teach in the field of education at the undergraduate and advanced level (master's and postgraduate courses); they teach independent courses and courses within the BA program in Human Resource Management and Working Life and the BA program in Behavioral Sciences.
Several of the members of Educational Leadership also teach courses within preschool, primary and upper secondary school teacher training programs, in Educational Management for school principals and courses for exchange students.
Educational Leadership also participates in university courses for teachers and educational leaders.
Group members
Publications
Part of Professional Development in Education, p. 333-346, 2024
Part of International Journal of Leadership in Education, p. 1-14, 2024
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Part of Skolan som politisk organisation, p. 131-156, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2024
Part of International Journal of Educational Management, p. 302-316, 2024
Organizational Routines and Theorizing in Large-Scale School Improvement—Exploring a Swedish Design
Part of Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
Kunskapsbildning för professionellt lärande genom kollegiala samtal
Part of Utbildning och Lärande / Education and Learning, 2024
Newly appointed principals' professional identity: insights from a Swedish perspective
Part of Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Deconstructing autonomy: The case of principals in the North of Europe
Part of European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Tillitsbaserat ledarskap och autonomi
Part of Rektors praktik i vetenskaplig belysning., p. 73-88, Liber, 2023
Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
Principal’s autonomy and control in Sweden before and during COVID 19 - an explorative study
Part of Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, p. 1-13, 2023
For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals
Part of Journal of Educational Administration, p. 325-340, 2023
Skolans kultur och kulturer inom skolan
Part of Rektors praktik i vetenskaplig belysning, p. 108-124, Liber, 2023
Rektorers rörlighet i Sverige: En kunskapsöversikt
Part of Utbildning och lärande, 2023
Skolans arbets- och utvecklingsorganisation i vetenskaplig belysning
Part of Rektors praktik i vetenskaplig belysning, Liber, 2023
Part of Rektors praktik i vetenskaplig belysning, p. 28-44, Liber, 2023
Liber, 2023
Principals’ identity – developing and validating an analysis instrument in the Swedish context
Part of International Journal of Leadership in Education, p. 185-200, 2023
Perceptions on the Local School and Further education: A Rural School Leader’s Perspective
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, p. 150-162, 2022
Part of Journal of Educational Administration & History, p. 1-21, 2022
Part of Journal of educational change, p. 497-519, 2022
Part of Journal of Curriculum Studies, p. 733-750, 2022
Les syndicats d’enseignants suédois : un travail stratégique commun
Part of Revue internationale d'éducation Sèvres, p. 55-65, 2022
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 1-18, 2022
2022
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