Journal Articles
Leading today's kindergartens: Practices of strategic leadership in Hong Kong's early childhood education
- Leading today's kindergartens: Practices of strategic leadership in Hong Kong's early childhood education
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- 2017
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Pre-Primary Education
- Studies on school leadership in Hong Kong have mainly focused on primary and secondary schools, with only a handful of studies looking at leadership in early childhood education. This paper aims to report the findings of a study on strategic leadership in Hong Kong's kindergartens. It discusses the challenges that Hong Kong kindergarten leaders are facing and the need for practising strategic leadership. It then reports the findings of practices valued by the leaders of Hong Kong kindergartens. The findings of this study reveal, that apart from the abilities to exercise sound planning and management in school, leaders' reflective, flexible and systems thinking and their willingness in continuous professional and network development are crucial to leading today's kindergartens. This study also indicates that leaders' contextual intelligence is important for exercising strategic leadership. The significance of this study lies in its contribution to the investigation of leadership practices in early childhood education, the need to further explore how well kindergarten leaders are practising strategic leadership and the implications for the development of principal preparation programmes. [Copyright of Educational Management Administration & Leadership is the property of SAGE Publications Ltd.]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 17411432
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/e05bfbea
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