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Inspection of social outcome in
Norway?....
Agenda for my presentation
• Landscape
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Placement of legislation
• Content and Methodology
•
Social outcome
National level
Sentral regional
Local authorities
Primary and lower
secondary school
Kindergartens
(Private and
Public)
Local
Municipalities(428)
Adult
Education
Upper secondary
Education and Training
Owned
and run
by
Regional Counties (19)
Inspected
and
supported
from…
Supported from
County Governors (18)
The Directorate for Education and Training
Ministry of Education and Research
Private
schools
and Folk
High schools
Inspected by…
National authorities vs Local authorities
The placement of legislation
National legislation for primary and lower secondary
education and training contains a number of rules
that as a whole shall contribute to the individual pupil
(...) receiving a safe, qualitative and quantitative
education in line with the Storting’s (Parliament's)
intentions.
In order to ensure compliance with this body of rules,
it is necessary for school owners to be subject to
inspections and controls.
Inspection – in Norway
Fundamental instrument to guarantee
pupils legally established right to a balanced
education of the highest quality
Our inspections include two main activities:
1) investigate the practice of the school owner and in the school,
and,
2) make orders to correct practice that conflict with relevant laws
Inspecting social outcomes in schools
The Norwegian Education act, Section 1-1: The objectives of education and
training:
Paragraph 5-6:
“The pupils and apprentices shall develop knowledge, skills and
attitudes so that they can master their lives and take part in working
life and society. They shall have the opportunity to be creative,
committed and inquisitive.
The pupils and apprentices shall learn to think critically and act
ethically and with environmental awareness. They shall have joint
responsibility and the right to participate. Schools and training
establishments shall meet the pupils and apprentices with trust,
respect and demands, and give them challenges that promote
formation and the desire to learn. All forms of discrimination shall
be combated”
The Norwegian Education act, Section 1-1: The objectives of
education and training:
Paragraph 5-6:
“The pupils and apprentices shall develop knowledge, skills
and attitudes so that they can master their lives and take part
in working life and society. They shall have the opportunity to
be creative, committed and inquisitive.
The pupils and apprentices shall learn to think critically and
act ethically and with environmental awareness. They shall
have joint responsibility and the right to participate.
Schools and training establishments shall meet the pupils and
apprentices with trust, respect and demands, and give them
challenges that promote formation and the desire to learn.
All forms of discrimination shall be combated”
Inspecting psychosocial environment
Schools work to
prevent abusive
behavior
How the schools
handle abusive
behavior
How students and
parents are involved and
engaged in the preventive
work in the school
Different collaboration councils schools must have!
• Student councils
• Parents councils
• Joint committee( by the two above)
• An school environment council
• Also inspected:
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Activity?
Relevant subjects?
Information from the school?
Make their statements?
Methodology
Notification
Schools/
school
Authorities
are notified
of the
inspection
through a
written
“warning”.
Analysis
School
documents
Interviews
School
leaders
Teachers
Students
Parents
Others
Inspection
report
Preliminary
Final
Consequences of inspection
Public schools
Private schools
Corrections(Injunctions)
Corrections(Injunctions) - a
description of what to do in order to
obtain a practice in accordance with
Withdrawal of the funding's
law
Hold back funding's
Withdrawal of the schools
approval
Carrying out the inspection
• It is the school owner(municipality, county or a private school owner) who is
the addressee for inspection, but:
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Investigation is normally carried out at school level
(some themes are only subjected towards the school owners)
• Do not inspect the individual teacher
• If school visits – this normally takes 2-3 days and we have interviews with:
• Municipalities and schools chosen for inspection
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based on Risk analysis:
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Student survey
Media attention
National tests?
Other national surveys
etc
Other examples of student involvement(not part of our inspection)
• Youth council:
To give young people an opportunity to present advice and ideas
and to propose suggestions that are discussed at schools to the
local administration and politicians
Thank you for listening - I’m done!!
Now Discussions!
Discussion
• Is the social outcome of education considered when
inspecting?
• What are the focus of other approaches to social outcome?
• What are the main results / effects of these approaches?
• Is it outcome or input that are inspected?
• Feedback and Reflections?