Exploring the role of leadership in facilitating teacher learning in Hong Kong

Exploring the role of leadership in facilitating teacher learning in Hong Kong

• Law, Hau Fai Edmond The Hong Kong Institute of Education

School Leadership & Management, 31(4), 393-410, 2011

Routledge

2011

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers

Asia Discourse Analysis Teacher Learning Distributed Leadership Curriculum Leadership

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

In recent years international trends towards teacher empowerment and leadership have gained increased attraction in East Asia's education policy and practice. Yet, as scholars have noted, the values underlying these practices often conflict with traditional cultural norms of East Asian societies which stress hierarchical and status differences. This study explored the efficacy of an approach to developing distributed curriculum leadership among school teachers. The research employs discourse analysis of video-taped meetings of teachers in a mathematics curriculum development team in order to explore the leadership and teacher learning. The results provide initial support for strengthening school-level capacity for teacher leadership as a means of fostering teacher learning in East Asian schools. Implications include the need for incorporating programmes that build leadership and team development into more general staff development for teachers.
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• English

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