Toward an authentic leadership in Hong Kong sub-degree education: Personal philosophical approach

Toward an authentic leadership in Hong Kong sub-degree education: Personal philosophical approach

• Wong, Ka Wai Gary The Hong Kong Institute of Education

2012

4thInternational Academic Forum 2012 - The Asian Conference on Education Osaka Japan 2012 & The Asian Conference on Education (2012: Osaka, Japan)

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QD Secondary Education

Educational Leadership Sub-degree Education Personal Philosophy Educational Vision Policy Leadership Management and Administration

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

Given that the concept of community college in Hong Kong has only been introduced 10 years ago, with the new “3-3-4” education structural reform, the leadership in community college will become more challenging. In this paper, the aim is to provide a personal philosophy on how educational leaders should lead in community college settings given the highly diverse student backgrounds. The perspective of why we, as educational leaders, should reflect, reconstruct, and reengineer on community college leadership will be discussed. We will give insights on how different it is between leading in university and in community college, particularly in Hong Kong. Common issues and difficulties encountered by top managements, supporting staff, teachers, and students are identified and explained. The importance of relationship and dialogues in our context of building a true community is presented. The paper will conclude with the notion of how an authentic leader should be in leading community college in Hong Kong. It is expected that the direction of this personal philosophy will have a major impact in the both local and global leadership in education.

Paper presented at The 4thInternational Academic Forum 2012 - The Asian Conference on Education Osaka Japan 2012 & The Asian Conference on Education

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/12f42469

2015-02-10