Dr. Maija Salokangas

Assistant Professor
Education
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Biography

I joined Trinity College Dublin in September 2013 as an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Management. Prior to this I conducted my PhD research in the University of Manchester, England (2010-2013), trained as a primary school teacher (University of Helsinki, Finland), and taught in schools in Finland, England and Switzerland. My research interests are broadly within the areas of: education policy, leadership and governance, and especially the implications of transnational and national education policy and governance at local levels.

Research Intrest

Education policy, leadership, and governance - Comparative and international education - Qualitative research methods - Ethnography

List of Publications
Independent state-funded schools and system change: addressing educational equity? in, editor(s)Alan Dyson, Dennis Beach , On Education Equity in England and Sweden, Tufnell Press, [Salokangas, M. Chapman, C. & Beach, D.]
Salokangas Maija, Establishing oneself as researcher in school setting: reflections on the process through a partnership evaluation , British Educational Research Association, London, UK, 2011
Chapman Chris, Salokangas Maija, State-run Independent Schools in England, Sweden and US, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), 2011
Salokangas Maija, Chapman Chris, An Exploration of governance in a chain of Academies , British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS), 2012
Chapman Chris, Salokangas Maija, Independent state-funded schools: some reflections on recent developments, School Leadership & Management, 32, (5), 2012, p473 - 486
Salokangas Maija, A game of Chess: Head teacher recruitment in an Academy attached to a chain , "Researching schools at a time of rapid reform", BELMAS Conversation, the University of Manchester, UK, 2012
Salokangas Maija, Decision making over curriculum: exploration to the distribution and nature of autonomy in an independent state funded school attached to a chain, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, Canada , 2012
Salokangas Maija, McGinity Ruth, Embedded research: from seamless partnership between equals to chaos, complexity and distress, , European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Cadiz, Spain, 2012
Salokangas Maija, An exploration to the implications of the English Academy policy at local level, Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA), Helsinki, Finland, 2012
Salokangas Maija, Autonomy and innovation in English academy schools: a case study, The University of Manchester, 2013
Maija Salokangas, Chris Chapman, Exploring Governance in Two Chains of Academy Schools: A Comparative Case Study, Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Salokangas Maija, PISA e o milagre finlandês: reflexões críticas, Faculty of Education, University of São Paulo, 2014
Salokangas Maija, English academy schools: from targeted school improvement efforts to large-scale system change, Faculty of Education, University of São Paulo, 2014
Salokangas Maija, Kauko Jaakko, Holding English academy sponsors to account: local and national perspectives, ECER/EERA, Porto, Portugal, 2014
Kauko Jaakko, Salokangas Maija, Education policymaking and local dynamics, Nordic Education Research Association (NERA), Lillehammer, Norway, 2014
Wermke, W. & Salokangas, M, Editorial: Autonomy in education - theoretical and empirical approaches to a contested concept, Nordic Journal of Studies in Education Policy, 1, (2), 2015
Salokangas Maija, Kauko Jaakko, Borrowing Finnish PISA success? Critical reflections from the perspective of the lender, Educação e Pesquisa, 41, 2015, p1353 - 1366
Kauko, J. & Salokangas, M., The evaluation and steering of English academy schools through inspection and examinations: national visions and local practices, British Educational Research Journal., 2015
Salokangas, M., Marketisation of public education: the case of English Academies, University of Helsinki, 27/08, 2015, Nordic Centre of Excellence - Justice Through Education