Program Leadership from a Nordic Perspective – Program Leaders’ Power to Influence their Program

Program Leadership from a Nordic Perspective – Program Leaders’ Power to Influence their Program

A. Högfeldt, E. Strömberg, A. Jerbrant, A. Berglund, P. Kinnunen, L. Malmi, et al, et al, et al, et al (2013).  Program Leadership from a Nordic Perspective – Program Leaders’ Power to Influence their Program. 11.

In this paper a continuation research at five technical universities in Nordic countries (N5T network) in 2012 is presented, where the aim was to find out how the program leaders conceived their function, role and mandate, and the work situations between the universities were compared. The previous research demonstrated that program leaders have quite different positions, strategies and methods when it comes to monitoring and developing their programs. In this paper, a deeper investigation is carried out of the (im-) possibilities to make real influence on the study courses that constitutes the respective Engineering study programs. Eight program leaders from the five N5T universities have been interviewed, and the analysis of these studies, has culminated in a model for the analysis of program leadership for Engineering education development.

Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 – 13, 2013.

Authors (New): 
Anna-Karin Högfeldt
Emma Strömberg
Anna Jerbrant
Anders Berglund
Päivi Kinnunen
Lauri Malmi
Peter Munkebo Hussmann
Jørgen Villadsen
Johan Malmqvist
Bjørn Baggerud
Pages: 
11
Affiliations: 
KTH Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Keywords: 
Program leader
program director
education development
Integration
leadership
power
Year: 
2013
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