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Overview
Global education policymakers have embraced school level leadership as a lever for educational change and there is a substantial body of research that illustrates both the power of and the impact of effective principals (school heads) on student outcomes. However, most of this literature has emerged from Canada, the United States, and the UK. What of the rest of the world? The field of comparative education in particular has engaged the topic of school leadership unevenly, leaving large gaps in what is known in most of the world. This presentation will invite participants to ask why that is, and to consider the research and policy contexts that have told some stories about school leadership but not others. The presentation will provide an overview of the current international knowledge base about school level leadership—the knowledge, skills, and beliefs of effective principals as well as the professional pathways that produce school leaders. It will then provide an overview of “leadership in the middle tier,” a concept of growing interest with global education organizations like UNESCO. And it will conclude with a discussion of the ways that deeper understanding of context can shape future research into school leadership, for the benefit of both the scholarly field and day-to-day practice in schools.
Date and Time
Monday, December 9, 2024, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
＊After the lecture, a social event with light refreshments will be held.
Place
Room A200, 2F, Akamon General Research Building（AKAMON SOGO KENKYUTOH）, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
＜ Access＞
https://www.p.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_08_02_j.html
Speaker
Prof. Joseph Flessa
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toront
Bio
A former teacher and school principal, Joseph Flessa’s earned a PhD in policy research from the University of California, Berkeley. His current scholarship focuses on comparative educational administration, and school leadership and policy in diverse schools. He has worked in principal development in the US and in Chile; in Canada he helped establish the First Nations Schools Principals’ Course for leaders of Indigenous schools on reserve. Professor Flessa is widely regarded as an exemplary teacher and dedicated supervisor. In 2021, he was awarded OISE’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. He is currently Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy where he supervises many EdD and PhD students, and Associate Dean, Programs at OISE.
Holding style
face-to-face
Language
The seminar will be held in English.
*We are considering using Japanese subtitles.
How to apply for participation
To participate, please fill out the form below by Sunday, December 8.
https://forms.office.com/r/GBpC7y27KW
Summary
This talk is organized around three major themes that emerged from a study of 8 nations — Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in the Nordic group and Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan in East Asia. The first theme is the importance of the relationship between teachers and the nation state in defining national educational policy and the functions of the public school system. The second is that globalization itself is neither static nor a linear process. The impact of globalization varies over time and across place, and globalization theories must account for a world cultural dynamic that is not generated solely by transnational organizations but is increasingly elaborated and altered within national cultural contexts. Third, we propose a reconceptualization of how regional networks or regional effects interact with world culture dynamics in order to fully understand how globalization effects on nation states within distinct regions of the world.
Date and Time
Friday, July 5, 2024, 5:30-7:00 p.m. JST
Place
Room 158, 1F, Faculty of Education Building, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
＜Access to the Venue＞
Please click the link below.
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※High Flex
You can participate in person or online.
Language
The seminar will be held in English.
Presenter
Professor & H.L. Batschelet Chair of Education, Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Chair
Hideto Fukudome, Professor, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo
How to apply for participation
To participate, please fill out the form below by Thursday, July 4.
If you want to participate online, we will send you the link.
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CASEER SEMINAR
The Temporal Dimension of Policy Transfer
The presentation discusses the global reform wave School-Autonomy-with-Accountability (SAWA) that traveled across the global between 1990s and 2010s.
It provides a retrospective analysis of the temporal dimension of that global education reforms.
Drawing on a comparative, transnational, and global perspective and using SAWA as an example of fundamental reform,
Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi differentiates between the time, timing, tempo, sequence, lifespan, and age of policies.
The study contributes to public policy studies with special attention given to the education sector.
Date/Time
April 12, 2024 (Friday) 17:00~18:30
Style of the Event
Face-to-face only (planned)
Venue
The Ito International Research Center (3F)
Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
Click here for campus map (in Japanese)
Moderator
Prof. Yuto Kitamura
(Graduate School of Education and Director of CASEER at the University of Tokyo)
Language
English
Speaker
Prof. Gita Steiner-Khamsi
(Teachers College, Columbia University)
Professor GitaSteiner-Khamsi is the (designated) William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
She also holds the Honorary UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
She published thirteen books on policy borrowing and lending, comparative methodologies, and global governance in the education sector. She is currently a JSPS Invitational Professor at Kobe University.
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