On predicting teacher professional learning in Hong Kong primary schools: Mediating effects of trust, communication, and collaboration

On predicting teacher professional learning in Hong Kong primary schools: Mediating effects of trust, communication, and collaboration

• Hallinger, Philip The Hong Kong Institue of Education
• Li, Lijuan Joanna The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Walker, Allan David

2015

The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2015 (2015: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QC Primary Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

This study tests mediated principal leadership effects on teacher professional learning through collegial trust, communication, and collaboration in Hong Kong primary schools. It is based on a series of single mediator studies, and uses the same convenience sample of 970 teachers from 32 local primary schools. It also adopts Hayes’ (2013) regression-based macros, integrated with bootstrapping method, to examine and compare sizes and proportions of potential mediating effects of the three human relational variables. The findings affirm the role and nature trust, communication, and collaboration play in the mediated relationship. In contrast, the mediating power of collaboration is non-significantly stronger than that of communication, and is more than doubled that of trust. The conclusion is that, a school environment featuring mutual trust, effective communication, and genuine collaboration is a core condition for teacher learning and change. Provided that the forces that bind people together in schools are multiple, principals are recommended to create school culture and conditions strategically for teacher learning to thrive.

Presented at the Asia Leadership Roundtable 2015, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/dc45d286

2015-03-25