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Lokala styrelser med föräldramajoritet i grundskolan

Publicerad:2008-04-14
Uppdaterad:2012-04-12

Margaretha Kristoffersson har studerat försöksverksamheten med lokala styrelser med föräldramajoritet i grundskolan.
God kommunikation, öppnare klimat och större insyn i skolans verksamhet, det är resultatet om man får det att fungera, säger hon.

Författare

Margaretha Kristoffersson

Handledare

Professor Ingrid Nilsson

Opponent

Professor Lisbeth Åberg-Bengtsson, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap

Disputerat vid

UmU – Umeå universitet

Disputationsdag

2008-04-25

Titel (se)

Lokala styrelser med föräldramajoritet i grundskolan

Titel (eng)

Local boards with parents in majority in compulsory school

Institution

Pedagogiska institutionen

Local boards with parents in majority in compulsory school

This doctoral thesis consists of a thesis for a Licentiate degree (Kristoffersson, 2002. Föräldrainflytande i grundskolan. En studie av nio lokala styrelser med föräldramajoritet i grundskolan. [Parents involvement in compulsory school. A study of nine local boards with parents in majority in compulsory school]) and two articles (Kristoffersson, 2005. Parental involvement: Parents´ new role in Swedish schools; and Kristoffersson, 2007. The paradox of parental influence in Danish schools. A Swedish perspective). In this thesis my interest is particularly governance, management, communication and partnership. The research aimed comprehensively to describe the school boards and discuss the education policy behind the implementation of the boards. An additional aim were to see whose interests favoured in local school boards. I also wanted to study how comparative research in this case can be relevant to Swedish studies of local school boards. I used the frame factor theory, which aids the exploration of the correspondence relations between factors that affect local school boards. Governance and partnership are key concepts applied to the analysis of data. Critical analysis and discussions of these boards from a hermeneutic sign are included, which meant that I tried to understand the boards in their context. I used a case study method. Data were gathered through interviews, observations and analysis of documents (e.g., school board minutes). The results signify that different interests are not adequately balanced on the boards. Communication between the board and the parents not on the board was not satisfactory in many cases and such parents felt excluded from the board s activity. The principal s collaboration with the board s chairperson was an important influence on the board. Evaluation, support and feedback of the board s activity from the local school authority in the municipality were often neglected. The implementation of the boards related to the transferred welfare policy to more market-oriented political governance. The political governing of the school changed, and was influenced by neo-liberal trends where partnership had become the new prestige word. Parents are today seen as individual consumers in a market, whereas as board members they should make decisions that include all parents. Instead of increased parental influence in the schools, the effect of boards could be increased differences between pupils and between parents. This arose because parents are not a homogenous group. Social, cultural and economic conditions have an influence on parents activities. The state implementation of local school boards in Sweden and in many countries is, therefore, complex. This can be seen through the weak interest in the creation of boards, which also can be linked to the top-down character of the reform. This study is an example where global, national and local factors interact.

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