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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1478472
This article is part of the Research Topic Inclusive Education in Intercultural Contexts View all 7 articles

‘We all have the same goals’?! Goal diversity in cross-sector collaborations of cultural education

Provisionally accepted
Marie-Therese Arnold Marie-Therese Arnold 1*Nina Kolleck Nina Kolleck 2
  • 1 Division of Educational Research and Social Systems, Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • 2 Division of Educational and Socialization Theory, Department of Educational Theory, Potsdam, Germany

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    Following the current rise of cross-sector networks in education, we take a closer look at the supply side in the field of cultural education in Germany. We consider goal diversity in cross-sector collaborations and aim to provide insights into the group-specific goals of actors in the initial phase of collaborations. Using the lens of collaborative governance, collaborative engagement, and goal diversity research, we conducted 24 semi-structured interviews which we analyzed using thematic qualitative content analysis. We identified distinct goals for each of the five participating groups. These goals can be assigned to the macro, meso, and micro levels of the network, providing information about the direction of the goals and emphasizing the dynamic interplay of goals and their implications for collaboratie dynamics. Future research could determine whether the results can be found in other contexts.

    Keywords: Cross-sector collaboration, collaborative governance, goals, Goal diversity, Cultural education

    Received: 09 Aug 2024; Accepted: 08 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Arnold and Kolleck. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Marie-Therese Arnold, Division of Educational Research and Social Systems, Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, 14195, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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