Tapio Lahtero, Mikko Salonen
Educational Leadership in Finland. Principal’s role in building a sustainable school culture (e-book)
Educational Leadership in Finland. Principal’s role in building a sustainable school culture (e-book)
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The Finnish school is a success story. The foundation for the success is excellence in Educational Leadership. The role of a principal is crucial for creating a school culture that ensures an inspiring atmosphere and a sustainable development of a school.
This book supports a principal’s professional development from qualified to excellent and describes how the principal successfully works in close cooperation with the entire school community.
The book serves principals, educational leaders, school developers and aspiring principals, as well as all those involved in developing a school's culture.
The authors of the book have long experience and in-depth knowledge of running a school and improving the school culture, both in Finland and abroad. Tapio Lahtero, PhD, Adjunct Professor of educational leadership is the Director of the teacher training schools and the Director of the Principal Training Program at the University of Helsinki. Mikko Salonen, MA (Ed.) works at Konsulttipaja Ltd as a consulting partner in diverse educational leadership projects. He has previously served as a principal for 20 years.
“Tapio Lahtero and Mikko Salonen uncover a more fundamental reason for the success: it has been institutionalized into the culture of learning through the careful development of school principals as guardians and leaders of cultures” - Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada.
“This book breaks the mould on school leadership by showing how leaders raise performance and get important jobs done by building a way of being with their community that is humanistic, cooperative and in tune with creating a good society together.” - Andy Hargreaves, Research Professor, Boston College
“This brilliant book reveals what educational leadership culture in Finland looks like and how school leadership excellence is step-by-step built in nation’s every single school. - Pasi Sahlberg, Visiting Professorial Fellow, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
“In this outstanding account of the role of the principal, Lahtero and Salonen move their readers from understanding First-Order Change to Second-Order Change. This is a must-read for all leaders, teachers, and would-be teachers”. - Lyn Sharratt, Ed D., Internship Supervisor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada.
“The authors have a holistic view of leadership based on shared values and the creation of an inclusive school culture. The authors share their leadership experience and knowledge, generalised into conceptual frameworks.” - Eve Eisenschmidt, Professor of educational leadership, Tallinn University, Esto
Product details
Product details
ISBN: 978-952-7401-11-8
Format: E-book
Publication year: 2022
About the authors
About the authors
Tapio Lahtero
KT Tapio Lahtero, docent, has built his career both in municipal education administration and in universities. He graduated as a primary school teacher from the University of Turku in 1993 and completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Jyväskylä in 2011 on the topic “The Leadership Culture of Comprehensive Schools.” He obtained his Executive MBA in Public Administration Management at the University of Tampere in 2015.
Before joining the University of Helsinki in 2015, Tapio worked in the City of Vantaa’s education department as a principal, area principal, and Head of Basic Education. He is currently Head of the Department of Teacher Training Schools at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki – comprising Viikki Teacher Training School and Helsinki Normal Lyceum. In addition, he serves as the director responsible for education and municipal cooperation in the Research Community for Leadership in Education.
Tapio is a sought-after trainer and consultant for educational leadership, both nationally and internationally. He has held leadership roles in several in-service training projects funded by the Finnish National Agency for Education. Tapio has supervised theses in educational leadership and published several research articles on leadership culture, distributed leadership, management, and pedagogical leadership.
In consulting and training for education administration and school leadership, his main areas of focus are pedagogical leadership, organizational culture, learning communities, and leadership of inclusion.
Mikko Salonen
KM Mikko Salonen has extensive experience in the field of education. In the early years of his career, he worked as a teacher and later as a comprehensive school principal in Espoo for nearly 20 years. The school, specializing in mathematics and natural sciences, operated in an innovative network with other schools in Finland and Europe, thereby creating a successful work community and a strong reputation.
He currently works in his own company, Konsulttipaja Oy. He is a respected consulting partner in various long-term and short-term educational leadership projects both in Finland and abroad. His consulting assignments mainly range from assisting different educational organizations to supporting the development and transformation of individual schools. He also has experience in helping and supporting organizations in crisis.
In addition to organizational consulting, Mikko also works as a personal mentor and coach for principals and educational leaders. Since the beginning of his principalship, he has worked as a trainer and designer of national development programs for principals and educational leaders, and this work continues today.
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