TY - JOUR A1 - Freier, Ronny A1 - Thams, Ulrike A1 - Wermke, Wieland T1 - Juridification and regulative failures. The complicated implementation of international law into national schools JF - Journal of Education Policy N2 - This paper starts with the increasing discussions on juridification in education. Concerning theorizing on such processes, we examine the poor implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD (2008) in the school sector of Germany. The paper considers the reasons for this failed endeavor by analyzing the complex, multilevel relations between policy and law in different national and historical contexts. With this, aspects of juridification as a process in education policy can be illuminated. In this regard, we suggest crucial aspects regarding juridification in public education: a focus on regulative failures in juridification processes, juridification’s contexts, the mandate for putting it into action, the allocation of resources, and finally, its objective and subjective rights dimensions, i.e. how an individual can claim rights within the machinery of public education. KW - juridification KW - inclusion KW - law KW - rights KW - Germany KW - CRPD Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-17978 SN - 1464-5106 VL - 39 IS - 1 SP - 83 EP - 104 PB - Routledge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wermke, Wieland A1 - Freier, Ronny A1 - Nordholm, Daniel T1 - Framing curriculum making: bureaucracy and couplings in school administration JF - Journal of Curriculum Studies N2 - This article aims to undertake a comparative investigation of school administration to understand further the frames of curriculum making. School administration is an under-illuminated aspect of curriculum research. The paper commences from the notion that, in mass education, a school system is operationalized by many schools, which are coupled to each other and to political decisions. Here is the curriculum vital. Building on the classic work of Stefan Hopmann, a curriculum is part of the administrational structure of the school system. The Article suggests several categories that can describe the nature and function of school administration in various contexts. There are external matters of schooling, such as school buildings, school food, etc. and internal matters of schooling, such as curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Individual schools and school administration are coupled via licences, and programmatic, professional, and procedural supervision. The article employs these categories with a comparison of a decentralized Sweden and a centralized Germany. The comparison investigated 290 Swedish municipality school administrations and 45 state education authorities in 4 German federal states. In this comparison many interesting similarities between both contexts can be hightligthed. KW - school administration KW - curriculum making KW - decentralisation KW - international comparison KW - centralisation Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-17957 SN - 1366-5839 VL - 55 IS - 5 SP - 562 EP - 579 PB - Taylor & Francis ER -