Journal Articles

Managing school-based curriculum innovations: A Hong Kong case study

Title:
Managing school-based curriculum innovations: A Hong Kong case study
Authors:
Source:
Curriculum Journal, 21(3), 313-332, 2010
Publisher:
Routledge
Year Published:
2010
Education Categories:
- G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  - GA Chinese Language
- D Curriculum
Keywords:
Case Studies Curriculum Planning Teacher Participation in Administration Chinese Education Teacher Leadership Curriculum Leadership Discourse Analysis School-Based Curriculum Development
Region:
- Hong Kong
Period:
- 1997.7 onwards
Level:
- Unknown or Unspecified
Abstract:
This study was originally designed to explore the impact of a distributed approach to developing curriculum leadership among schoolteachers. Previous papers have focused on reporting evidence of teacher learning in the process of engaging teachers in various types of curriculum decision-making in an innovation project based on interview data. This article reports a discourse analysis of the interactions based on the visual data in videotaped meetings between teachers in a Chinese curriculum development team and shows that teacher participation is constrained by the leadership styles of the positional leaders in the team in the second action cycle in the project. The mediational effects of the leadership styles invite policy-makers and school management to rethink the effectiveness of school-based approaches to curriculum development in enhancing teacher learning and development.
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Language:
- English
Document Type:
Journal Articles
ISSN:
- 09585176
DOI:
- 10.1080/09585176.2010.504577
Permalink:
https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/afb1e296
Entry Date:
2010-12-24