Educational leadership in Hong Kong schools, 1950-2000: Critical reflections on changing themes

Educational leadership in Hong Kong schools, 1950-2000: Critical reflections on changing themes

• Evers, Colin W. Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong
• Katyal, Kokila Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong

Journal of Educational Administration and History, 40(3), 251-264, 2008

Routledge

2008

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RH Supervisors, School Principals & Administrators
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QA Education System; Categories of Schools
• P Social Context of Education
  • PF Religion & Education; Philosophy & Education ; Educational Thought

Leadership Training Foreign Countries Instructional Leadership Cultural Influences Confucianism Educational History Educational Change Educational Administration Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990-1997.6
• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

As a former colony, Hong Kong's education system has been powerfully influenced by ideas from the West. However, these influences have been mediated by a number of factors of contingency - the most important of which is culture - which shapes implementation, particularly of what counts as successful practice. The aim of this paper is to trace the interpretation and implementation of key ideas about school leadership and to offer some analytical projections into the future based on current trajectories. It explores three broad sets of constraints on the development of leadership practice: the features of the Hong Kong school system, the influence of a Confucian cultural tradition, and the process oriented nature of the professional practice of effective school leadership. The paper concludes by offering an analysis of how this dynamic process view of leadership can be used to understand current attempts to build a school-based approach to educational leadership.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 00220620

• 10.1080/00220620802507268

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/e7d4ac81

2010-09-08