We focus on the following topics:
- School leadership and democracy
- School leadership as a profession
- School leadership and ethics
- School leadership and sustainability
- School leadership and documentation
- Professional school leadership
- Dialogical school leadership
- Didactic school leadership
- New leadership technologies
- School leader education, changing demands, and expectations for school leadership in the context of current societal development and public sector modernization
- School leadership in the tension between external and internal demands and expectations
Seminars on School Leadership
The focus area is organized as a series of idea, knowledge, and experience-sharing seminars, where (leadership) researchers from, among others, SDU engage in "constructive confrontation" with (leadership) researchers from the university college sector to explore and illuminate current themes and issues within the field of school leadership. The seminars have so far resulted in a publication on current trends in school leadership, which will be published in August 2024.
Another goal is to develop practice-oriented research and development projects, conferences, research applications, and possibly further and continuing education within the field of school leadership.
Upcoming Activities Currently, research activities related to the primary school's development program are being initiated. On August 21, 2024, a conference on school leadership is planned following the network's publication "Current Trends and Challenges in School Leadership." The program is expected to be published soon. In June, a webinar on school leadership is planned.
Focus Group Leader
- Associate Professor Finn Wiedemann, Department of Design, Media, and Educational Sciences, SDU
Focus Area Participants
- Associate Professor Emeritus Lars Frode Frederiksen, SDU
- Associate Professor Bjørn Ribers, Department of Design, Media, and Educational Sciences, SDU
- Associate Professor Jakob D. Bøje, Department of Design, Media, and Educational Sciences, SDU
- Associate Professor Anders Ljungdalh, Department of Design, Media, and Educational Sciences, SDU
- External Lecturer Peter Henrik Raae, Department of Design, Media, and Educational Sciences, SDU
- External Lecturer Karsten Mellon, SDU
- PhD Student Marianne Vihøj, SDU & UCL
- Postdoc Sanna Lassen, Aarhus University
- Associate Professor Anders Sandgaard, UC SYD
- Associate Professor Gitte Miller Balslev, Center for Science Education and Communication, FNUG, SDU
- Associate Professor and Chief Consultant Christel Aulkær Moll, UC Lillebælt
- Associate Professor Lonni Hall, University College Absalon
- Assistant Professor Cecilie Maria Lindberg Laursen, NTNU
- School Leader and PhD Merete Storgaard
Publications
- Finn Wiedemann (2023): Hvad lærte skolelederne under covid-19? Folkeskolen.dk
- Finn Wiedemann (2022). Putin er fra Mars og Zelensky er fra Venus. En organisations- og ledelsesteoretisk analyse af de to præsidenters ledelsesstil.
- Peter Henrik Raae & Finn Wiedemann (2022): Covid-erfaringer fra skoler samlet til næste gang. I: Kommunen.dk.
- Gitte M. Balslev & Sune Christensen (2021): Ånden i aftalen – rum til kulturforandring og professionel dømmekraft. Den nye arbejdstidsaftale set fra tre perspektiver.
- Karsten Mellon (2021)Skoleledere er fanget mellem optimisme og bekymring - det må ikke blive lærernes byrde
- Finn Wiedemann (2021): Vi er vidne til et opgør med centrale ideer om skoleledelse. Skolemonitor
- Anders Sandgaard (2020). Skoleledelsens implementering og organisering af inklusion i folkeskolen. Plenum, (5), 62-65.
- Jakob D. Bøje & Lars F. Frederiksen (2020): Forskning i skoleledelse. Gympæd. 2.0. nr. 21. s. 4-7