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Avoiding Unambiguity: Tensions in School Governing

In: Hybrid Forms of Governance

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  • Justine Grønbæk Pors

    (Copenhagen Business School)

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As in many countries, the Danish public school system has in recent years been involved in a variety of assessments and international comparisons. Organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have conducted a number of PISA investigations and reviews of specific subjects either comparing national school systems or explaining factors in single countries. In a political context as well as in a broader public sense these assessments have resulted in a great deal of attention with their findings of how Danish public schools lack a culture of evaluation. In fact the final conclusion of an OECD review from 2004 stated that a culture of evaluation ‘is the one single factor that it is most important to achieve if standards are to be raised’ (OECD 2004: 129).

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  • Justine Grønbæk Pors, 2012. "Avoiding Unambiguity: Tensions in School Governing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen & Inger-Johanne Sand (ed.), Hybrid Forms of Governance, chapter 2, pages 30-45, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36300-7_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230363007_3
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