The local governance of Swedish schools in light of a new educational policy landscape empirical exploration and theoretical elaboration

Figures & data

Table 1. Data collection.

		Number
Target groups	Methods	M1	M2	Documentation
LEA officials	Individual interviews	2 × 8	2 × 6	Transcriptions
Principals	Focus-group interviews	2 × 6	2 × 5	Transcriptions
LEA policy documents	Policy analysis	6	5	Notes and categorizations
School policy documents	Policy analysis	30	25	Notes and categorizations

Table 2. Analytical model.

	Institutional Elements
Carriers	Regulative	Normative	Cultural-Cognitive
Symbolic Systems	Education act, curriculum, local policy, inspections documents	Values, visions and goals, recommendations, guidelines	Constitutive schemas, typifications, educational programs, literature
Relational Systems	Governance systems, formalized areas of, responsibility and decision-making	Authority systems, positions and roles, leading systems	Role models, discourses, identification, common sense, shared knowledge
Routines	Structered routines and regularities, operating procedures	Social and professionel expectations, obedience to duty	Habitus and shared logics of thinking and actions
Artifacts	Objects complying with rules and obligations	Objekts and technical systems reinforcing norms and conventions	Objects and technical systems possessing discourses, taken for granted