Tidsskrift for Professionsstudier (Mar 2020)

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  • Jakob Ditlev Bøje

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7146/tfp.v16i30.119292
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 30

Abstract

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This article describes how school leadership, as a response to omnipresent hopes and expectations, seems to be shrouded by mystery and new forms of secular religion. This results in new divisions of labour – between a profane, everyday praxis, a kind of magic management, and divine leadership. The article is theoretically informed by the social anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and it is based on empirical data from a project on qualification of school leadership in the Danish Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school).

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