Study title

Leadership in Multicultural School 2004: Rector Interviews

Dataset ID Number

FSD2510

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2510
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2510

Data Type

Qualitative

Authors

• Kuukka, Katri (University of Tampere. Research Centre for Vocational Education)

Abstract

The data were collected by interviewing 25 rectors of multicultural comprehensive schools in 2004. The interview topics included leadership challenges posed by multiculturalism, pupils' and their guardians' integration to Finnish school and its working culture, challenges in teaching, dilemmas in culture meetings, and the rectors' interpretations on the notion of multiculturalism.

Background variables included the respondent's age, gender, time worked as rector at the current school, number of friends or relatives with immigrant background, whether there were members of school staff or board with immigrant background, number of pupils in school, proportion of pupils with immigrant background, and the second largest language group in school.

Keywords

cultural pluralism; educational administrators; immigrants; immigration; management; schools; teaching

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Compulsory and pre-school education (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Minorities (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Kuukka, Katri

Time Period Covered

2004

Collection Dates

2004-10 – 2004-11

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Rectors in Finnish multicultural comprehensive schools

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

25 rectors of comprehensive schools that had over 10% of pupils with immigrant background in 2004 volunteered for the interviews. A cover letter and an invitation to participate in the interview were sent to the rectors.

Collection Mode

Interview

Research Instrument

Interview scheme and/or themes

Data Files

25 RTF files, approximately 800 pages in total. In addition, HTML files based on the RTF files.

Data File Language

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

Qualitative data are available in their original language only and are not translated.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The interviews were anonymised. Names of schools and municipalities were removed. Names of persons were also removed, which may make some of the interviews more difficult to follow. The difficulty is more pronounced if the researcher knew the interviewee well and they refer to multpile persons in the interview; determining whether the person referred to was a teacher, teaching authority or someone else was not always successful at FSD.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Kuukka, Katri (University of Tampere): Leadership in Multicultural School 2004: Rector Interviews [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2010-03-26). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2510

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Publications

Kuukka, Katri (2009). Rehtorien eettinen johtaminen monikulttuurisessa koulussa. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Kasvatustieteen väitöskirja.