The meaning of educational governance
What is meant by educational governance*?
- In which steering organization of the education system (f.e. teacher training, school practice, school administration, support network, parents, etc.) are you actively involved as a party?
- What options for steering/ governance with regard to inclusive education do you see for yourself in your role or for the institution in which you (will) work or act?
- Please create an ‚Actor-Network-Map‘ about the system of steering inclusive education in your educational region or country. Try to locate yourself as an actor involved in the network and identify your interaction partners. Document the mutual dependencies, forms of communication and coordination processes in key words. For inspiration have a look at the fictive network analysis below (as an example).
- What transformation impulses were given by education policy in your region or country? How have these been reconstructed by different actors involved?
* theoretical concepts of governance, governance theory, etc.
Definitions
Educational governance is a research approach in the field of education. It examines how action is coordinated in multi-level-systems like the education system with numerous actors (individual persons, groups, organizations). With a governance-theoretical approach research tries to survey, how different levels or actors in the system interact with each other (on a horizontal or vertical level in the multilevel system) and which problems f.e. in the social coordination of action can occur between the different levels.
Governance Actors: The individuals, groups, social associations or organizations that work together in a steering process.
Transformation: A transformation is understood to be a fundamental change. In the education systems we talk about the transformation from a selective and segregated education system, to an inclusive education system. From a social perspective, the term is used to describe changes for example in political, cultural or structural development. The transformation process comes to an end when new system cultures, politics or structures have become permanently established and stabilized
