EDITORIAL

The Editor has now evolved into an Action Group (see below). Erik and David are now to be known as the Publicity and Public Relations Action Group. We are now one of ten support groups to strengthen the mission of our Network comprising the Umbrella Network concept for ENIRDEM for the next decade. The Action Groups involve more members in assisting the Board to amplify the successes that we celebrated at the wonderful 10th Anniversary Conference in Bled. The metaphor of the umbrella places the ENIRDEM Board at the hub of the membership. Action Groups provide ten stays of the umbrella that support the membership (the fabric of the umbrella). Several sections below are taken from the documents produced by David for the ‘Retrospective’ and ‘Prospective’ presentations at the Bled Conference.

THE ENIRDEM CONFERENCE 2000

Dear ENIRDEM friends,

We are still collecting our impressions from the conference. We have been very happy to host you in Slovenia and even more to hear from you that you have found the conference well organised and the topic well selected. We are also glad to hear that you like our country. In order to remind you of the conference and especially of all old and new friends we have collected some photoes. You are invited to visit our homepage:

http://www.solazaravnatelje.si/English/Conferences/ENIRDEM10X.html

We are working on new ENIRDEM homepage.

As you may know David is editing the proceedings so you will be able to read all the papers early spring next year.

We hope to meet all of you in Ireland! Justina and Andrej On behalf of the hosting institutions

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS – A HEADACHE FOR THE EDITOR

A late start

The CD-rom arrived from mateje in Slovenia in November just before I went on assignment to Lithuania. At the beginning of December it is finally transferred to hard disc and word format and I have just listed below the articles as they were received. This alone took two hours’ work. 24 articles have been received, only 9 of them in the form requested at the conference. They range in length from 43 pages single-spaced to 7 pages double-spaced.

Slovenia Sweden Latvia England Belgium Netherlands Czech Republic Canada Iceland 9 5.5 3 1.5 1 1 1 1 1

• Anderson, Kirk Leadership Reciprocity: The Mutual Influences of Teacher Leaders and Principals
• Berg, Gunnar To lead or to be led – that is the question: from the uniprofessional to the multiprofessional school organisation
• Decaesteker,C. Mahieu P. and Spooren E. Training for school leaders - A Flemish reflection on two different training concepts.
• Erculj, Justina Collective learning in "networks of learning schools"
• Grinpauks, Zigfrids Quality of Pupil’s Achievements as a Result of Effective School Management
• Groth, Erik Leader’s learning – an occupational shift from Military Officers to School Leaders
• Hansen, Börkur. Jóhansson ”lafur H. and Lárusdóttir, Steinunn Helga Decentralization of Basic Schools in Iceland: Management Emphasis at a Crossroad
• Hanses, Svante and Lundgren , Mats School leadership and in-service training Some reflections from perspectives of organisation theory and pedagogy
• Rutar Ilc, Zora How can schools contribute to the development of pupils’ complex thinking?
• Ivanova, Ilze Thinking about learning in universities
• Kobal, Darja. Kolenc, Janez and Lebaric, Nada Motivation to learn in Slovenian secondary schools-Gymnasium
• Koren, Andrej and Trnavcevic, Anita Participation of teachers
• Levacic, Rosalind. Glover, Derek. Bennett, Nigel and Crawford, Megan Combining cerebral and insightful approaches: challenges for school management in England
• Nezvalová, Danu_e Intercultural competencies towards interactive professionalism – a challenge for leadership training
• Neimane, Signe and Vegere, Sarmite Developing school leaders’ learning
• Novak, Bogomir Changing the Paradigm of Slovene school
• Oldroyd, D and Högberg, S Helping the dog to wag its tail - evaluation through dialogue for the learning school
• Pecek, Polona What about non-formal staff development in a primary school?
• Vlasta Policnik Having established effective team work is the first step to successful leading
• Sundstrom, Bo Leading the Turnaround Management in Education
• Sternudd-Groth, Mia Marie To guide and steer the changing process of the school in a democratic way - Ideas behind a course in school leadership
• Trnavcevic, Anita Schools in the 21st Century: National Educational Policies, Organisational Learning and the Educational Markets
• Trunk Sirca, Nada Learn to know how to live in the community – pathway to a learning school
• E. Verbiest (ed.) A Cross-European Perspective On Training School Leaders

Instructions that 12 contributors did not implement:

1. Article Title + Authors' name(s) + Institution + Abstract (10-15 lines)
2. Maximum length 20 pages double spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font.
3. Headings in the text numbered (1, 2 , 3, etc.) and sub-headings 1.1, 1.2; 2.1. 2.2. etc. Only two levels of headings and sub-headings.
4. Figures and tables numbered and placed at the end of the file with exact place for insertion shown thus: [Insert Figure 1]. Figures can be hand drawn or photocopied and sent by mail with the printed version.
5. Include only references referred to in the text. Do not add a general bibliography.
6. Please have a colleague read the final draft for clarity and quality of content and language before sending it.

Be ready for hard choices

Management is that part of leadership that involves ‘getting things done with and through other people’. I now have the choice of whether to delegate or rewrite! The total length of the 23 articles is around 300 pages so that will require losing about one third to fit them into the final publication. How can this be done without losing some good ENIRDEM friends? Advice please! But please be ready to receive further requests for editing your own material once I make time to work on the substance between assignments in Albania, Cyprus, Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria.

David Oldroyd

REVIEW OF ENIRDEM'S NEEDS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

This is a summary of the brainstorming of over sixty participants at the 10th ENIRDEM Conference in Bled in September 2001. Upon this analysis of needs the proposal below for an Umbrella Network was formulated.

1. Set up an ENIRDEM exchange (a two-way swap of roles) or attachment (one person arrives) programme - of varying duration (1 week to 1 year).where we visit each others' institutions to teach and research.
2. Invite ENIRDEM colleagues to attend a short course you are running.
3. Develop an ENIRDEM mentoring system where colleagues support each other by e-mail and other means.
4. *Develop ENIRDEM's use of ICT - new web-site (www.enirdem.org?) with chat rooms for special interest groups; longer term ENIRDEM contribution to a virtual Masters' degree programme; a European Leadership Academy
5. *Boost publicity and PR (public relations) to make ENIRDEM much more widely known. e.g. Hyperlinks from EU web-sites; some form of permanent secretariat; strengthening the Newsletter.
6. *Complete an inventory of all ENIRDEM-inspired projects and make these available as a portfolio when applying for bids. We have to look more formal when bidding for funds
7. *European Masters' degree should be seriously investigated in order to draw on ENIRDEM member's' considerable expertise. (one group opposed the idea)
8. *Make a clear strategy to access EU funding - (Socrates, Erasmus, Columbus) perhaps led by colleagues based close to Brussels of with useful contacts there.
9. *Develop a list of contacts to invite, especially in countries not well represented - suggest specific persons to contact and let them have the Newsletter.
10. Initiate more joint projects between institutions.
11. Consider smaller regional conferences to save on travel expenses.
12. Set up small action groups to make an action plan for selected topics marked *

ENIRDEM is ...

... a Network is not an organisation, it thrives on chaos, it is a medium, not a message Keep the warm personal dimension alive, the ENIRDEM spirit at the conferences. Keep the dialogue between researchers, developers, practitioners and administrators. Keep separate from other networks - preserve the ENIRDEM culture.

ENIRDEM's PROPOSED ACTION GROUPS

Arising from the needs analysis summarised above, the following Action Groups were proposed at the final session of the Bled Conference. Some nominees (AGs 2 , 6 and 7) were proposed in their absence and would be contacted to see if they were willing to contribute. Each Action Group was invited to produce a one-page action plan and place it on the new web-site to initiate activities and stimulate further involvement.

1. Fundraising and Brussels AG - ANNIKKI JANTTI Dual targets: funding for Conference attendance; funding for research
2. Collaborative Research AG - PETER KARSTANJE; RAY BOLAM To link institutions or individuals for cross-cultural and comparative European projects
3. Exchanges and Attachments AG - OLAFUR JOHANSSON To develop individual inter-institutional exchanges or visits, or invitations to training events; matching receivers and visitors
4. Publicity and Public Relations AG - ERIK GROTH; DAVID OLDROYD Newsletter, ENIRDEM Portfolio for use in bids
5. Regional Intervisitation AG - JUSTINA ERCULJ; KRISTINA MALMBERG; ELKE SPOOREN To organise small-scale e.g. 10-20 people, seminars or study visits to specific countries e.g. Iceland; Portugal
6. Recruitment - AG - CHRISTEN JORDET To load the web-site with useful materials, articles, references, hyperlinks, course outlines etc
7. External Relations AG – ANNE GOLD To explore common interests and links with other networks
8. Publications and Terminology AG - DAVID OLDROYD To edit conference publications and on-line dictionary
9. Collaborative Development AGs
   1. European Module - School Culture - ERIC VERBIEST; ERIK GROTH; +4
   2. IPWEM Net - ANNIKKI JANTTI; DOROTA EKIERT; JUSTINA ERCULJ; MAUREEN BOHAN To develop collaborative development activities
10. Inter-professional Contacts AG - ILSA IVANOVA To develop a dialogue between practitioners, researchers, developers and administrators

ENIRDEM's ORIGINAL MISSION, AIMS and PROPOSED ACTIVITIES,

Sanner, Norway, 2.10.1992

„ENIRDEM seeks to improve the quality of educational management development and research across the whole of Europe. It does this through the initiative and energy of its participants (researchers, trainer/developers and administrators) through mutually generated activities within and especially between, Central. Eastern and Western Europe.”

1. Facilitate collaboration in RDEM throughout Europe, including the recognition of equivalence of curricula and qualifications
2. Encourage mobility of RDEM professionals: visits, lectureships, attachments, collaborative research and annual conferences
3. Disseminate and exchange RDEM information, documents and materials
4. Collaborate and co-ordinate with other related European networks and associations

Collective Activities: Self-generated Activities: Conference Seminars Directory Newsletter Books Commissioned Reports Collaborative R & D Joint authorship Exchange of materials Visits, Attachments

Invitations to new members

The above reminder was used to stimulate the review of ENIRDEM's achievements and shortcomings conducted at the Bled Conference. The new directions and the Umbrella metaphor arose from the creative brainstorm and response of the members. Our central proposal is to make maximum use of a more decentralised umbrella structure energised by the new web-site through which the action groups will increase the flow of activitiy between members with particular needs and interests.

ENIRDEM ACHIEVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS

• A network or community of professionals that has helped to bring together formerly separate parts of Europe
• A series of annual conferences alternating between West and East venues that have caught the waves of change affecting our professional interests
• New relationships both professional and personal through the creation of a ‘Dear ENIRDEM Friends’ culture of songs and drinks of the nations
• Eight edited publications highlighting key themes and papers - a major channel for members’ scholarship, research and accounts of practice
• Newsletter and web-site - catching the wave of e-communication
• Collaborative research (e.g. the New Headteachers; IPWEM Project)
• Collaborative work ENIRDEM inspired or supported (e.g. in Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Finland)

Aims less achieved

• Seminars between conferences for Special Interest Groups - Bringing in all countries - Raising funds from external sources - Collaborating with other European Networks

An Unanswered Question

• Any examples of impact on policy or practice? Please send examples to the editor for inclusion in the next Newsletter to be published in April 2002

VI. ENIRDEM PUBLICATIONS & PUBLISHERS

ABC, De Lier

• 1992 Training for Educational Management in Europe van Wieringen, F, ed.
• 1993 Educational Management across Europe Bolam, R and van Wieringen, eds.
• 1994 European Issues in Educational Management Oldroyd, D and van Wieringen, F, eds.
• 1994 Reforming Educational Management in Europe Hamalainen, K and van Wieringen, F, eds.
• 1996 Improving Educational Management Kalous, J and van Wieringen, F, eds. F.Waxmann: Munchen/New York
• 1999 Research on Educational Management in Europe Bolam, R and van Wieringen, F, eds.
• 2000 New Heads in Europe Bolam, R., Dunning, G and Karstanje, P, eds.

Budapest: Wolters Kluwer

• 2000 Quality and Educational Management: a European Issue Balazs, E., von Wieringen, F and Watson, L, eds.

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN …

Finland + Europe

The International Programme for Women in Educational Management – Training the Trainers (IPWEM TT), grew out of cooperation between a group of Enirdem members. Danuta Elsner, Poland, Annikki Jäntti, Finland, Maureen Bohan, Ireland and Anne Gold, UK developed and delivered this successful SOCRATES project, culminating in a 10 day programme in Heinolan, Finland in July 2000. The manual resulting from this programme will be launched in Ireland in December 2001.

At the same time as the launch, a group of óld´and ´new´core group members of IPWEM TT will meet to discuss the next stage – how to disseminate further all the exciting work and contacts. Annikki Jäntti, Anne Gold, Eileen O´Connor (Ireland), Steinunn Helga Larusdottir (Iceland) and Justina Erculj (Slovenia) will be working on IPWEM+NET. This new project is intended to consolidate, develop and extend the work completed in IPWEM TT. We see it as an extensive network of contacts, training and good practice developing and disseminating information about women as educational managers.

We hope by the next Enirdem Newsletter to be able to inform Enirdem members about the new project in detail. We welcome those interested to contact us even now to find out about networking on IPWEM+NET.

Annikki Jäntti IPWEM Project Coordinator annikki.jantti@opeko.fi

Sweden

Centre for School Management Training, Uppsala University, Sweden

The Swedish team from Uppsala broke new ground at the ENIRDEM Bled Conference by running the experiential workshop from their national head teacher development programme. Its success suggests that we should keep this type of activity in future conferences. The programme links practical every-day work and the theoretical bases for head-teachers’ work. The main approach is learning by experience, application and reflection, critical processing of information and solving problems by input from theory and research. (Ed.)

Example of Experiential Learning: Communication within Organisations

Aim

This simulation activity focuses on communication within one, two or three types of groups in organisations. It gives significant insights into processes that are well known by all participants but whose causes are not well understood. Its effect is usually as if a light suddenly dawns upon them and they refer to this learning again and again.

Method

1. The simulation

Each participant is given a sheet with instructions and four playing cards. For all organisations the instructions are the same. There is one exception to this, however: only the leaders of all organisations are given information about the purpose of the group’s activity. Since all communication during the exercise must be in writing all groups are provided with paper slips. If desired special observers may be assigned to the groups. The simulation illustrates how the structure of organisations determines relationships and the flow of information.

1. The analysis

After the exercise finishes groups have some time for sharing of ideas about their common experience. To finish off all participants join in a common sharing of experiences relating to the following issues:

• How can we understand the relation between organisation form and effectiveness?
• Are there organisation forms that are more democratic than others are?
• How often do we make sure that colleagues share the same goals or have the same understanding of their organisation?
• What roles do informal leaders play?
• How difficult is it to give up existing mental models and change to new ones?
• How easily are destructive emotions evoked unknowingly, and how do we deal with them?
• What are the formal rules and informal rules?
• What behaviours result in high morale and low morale?

Experiences of the exercise are linked to everyday experience, and theoretical implications for further study are suggested. Further details of the simulation and the programme can be obtained by networking with the Uppsala team.

Olof Carlson, Torsten Göthson and Anita Hård af Segerstad

New organisation for State Principals’ Education.

Up to now the participation in Swedish State Principals Education has not generated any academic credits. From 2002 the students will be able to collect such marks. Due to that the collaboration between the Training Centres and universities will be closer. At the same time the regional division will be changed. Erik Groth

And last – but not least…

The editors wish you all

A very Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year!