Daniel Nordholm
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Education
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 23 99
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 05 16
- E-mail:
- daniel.nordholm@edu.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 2136
750 02 UPPSALA
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Biography
Associate professor. Current research interests address principals' identity, autonomy and school improvement. Head of the National School Leadership Training Programme. He is linked to the research group REL (Research on Educational Leadership).
Ongoing research projects:
Project leader (2023-2026): "Comparing Leadership Autonomy in Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic Municipalities and Schools", funded by the Swedish Research Council. The project group also includes Maria Jarl, assistant professor at the University of Gothenburg, Wieland Wermke, professor at Stockholm University, and Gunnlaugur Magnusson, associate professor at Uppsala University.
Project partner (2021–2024): "Comparisons of Leadership Autonomy in School Districts and Schools (CLASS)", funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project is led by Professor Tine Prøitz at the Department of Economics, History and Social Sciences, University of Southeast Norway.
Publications
Recent publications
- Organizational Routines and Theorizing in Large-Scale School Improvement—Exploring a Swedish Design (2024)
- Rektorers arbete och autonomi (2024)
- The need for recognised educational infrastructures to support superintendents’ professional development (2024)
- Big ideas, soft governance (2024)
- For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Organizational Routines and Theorizing in Large-Scale School Improvement—Exploring a Swedish Design (2024)
- The need for recognised educational infrastructures to support superintendents’ professional development (2024)
- Big ideas, soft governance (2024)
- For what purpose? Swedish superintendents' perspectives of professional development for principals (2023)
- Principals’ identity – developing and validating an analysis instrument in the Swedish context (2023)
- Newly appointed principals' professional identity (2023)
- Framing curriculum making (2023)
- Deconstructing autonomy (2023)
- Principal’s autonomy and control in Sweden before and during COVID 19 - an explorative study (2023)
- Sense-making of autonomy and control (2022)
- Perceptions on the Local School and Further education (2022)
- State, municipality and local community. Exploring principal’s autonomy and control in the rural north of Scandinavia (2022)
- In the eye of the storm? Mapping out a story of principals’ decision-making in an era of decentralisation and re-centralisation (2022)
- Comparing principal autonomy in time and space: modelling school leaders’ decision making and control (2022)
- Principals´ emotional identity (2020)
- Newly appointed principals’ descriptions of a decentralised and marked adopted school system (2019)
- Organisational routines for school improvement (2018)
- Educational infrastructures and organisational memory (2018)
- State policy directives and middle tier translation in a Swedish example. (2016)
- Knowledge transfer in school-to-school collaborations: The position of boundary objects and brokers (2016)
- Sense-making in a temporary organization: Implementing a new curriculum in a Swedish municipality (2015)
- Designing temporary systems – exploring local school improvement intentions in the Swedish context (2013)
Books
Chapters
- Rektorers arbete och autonomi (2024)
- Tillitsbaserat ledarskap och autonomi (2023)
- Rektorers identitet (2020)
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