In the Public Eye: Swedish School Inspection and Local Newspapers: Exploring the Audit-Media Relationship

Autor/inn/en	Ronnberg, Linda; Lindgren, Joakim; Segerholm, Christina
Titel	In the Public Eye: Swedish School Inspection and Local Newspapers: Exploring the Audit-Media Relationship
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 28 (2013) 2, S.178-197 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2012.701668
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Newspapers; Audits (Verification); Inspection; Correlation; Institutional Evaluation; Governance; Mass Media Role; Municipalities; Interviews; Evaluators; Educational Policy; Educational Administration; Public Schools; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Newspaper; Zeitung; Prüfverfahren; Korrelation; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Magistrat; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politics of education; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schweden
Abstract	This paper focuses on the dual dependencies apparent at the intersection of the media society and the audit society by empirically exploring and discussing the relationship between Swedish local newspaper coverage and school inspection activities. The research questions pertain to the Inspectorate's media strategy, how inspection is represented and conveyed, the messages sent, and who gets to speak. Literature on governance, and the role and function of the media in the wider audit society is applied theoretically. Four municipalities were selected to represent different demographical and economical structures and previous inspection experiences. The empirical material includes interviews with leading inspection officers and newspaper articles. The local newspapers portray the Inspectorate as a legitimate institution acting on behalf of and protecting the public, and even more so, the educational consumer. The current format used by the Inspectorate--a succinct reporting only on deviations--links with a favored format of the media, reinforcing the tight media-inspection relationship and leading to implications for education governance and policy. (Contains 1 table and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10