Developing Distributed Curriculum Leadership in Hong Kong Schools

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvEdmond Law,Hong Kong) Law, Edmond (The Education University of Hong Kong

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The book aims to explore distributed leadership in developing curriculum innovations in schools with a target of bringing about theoretical underpinnings in the West with the empirical studies and practices in the East. It examines theoretically the roots of the curriculum leadership studies and practically with the empirical data and case studies in Hong Kong which has been considered a melting pot of the Western concepts and innovations in a land of Eastern cultures. The examination is framed within theoretical frameworks of activity theories, discourse analysis and social network systems. The findings will show the impact of the cultural traditions of Eastern countries in the mediation of the direction of the discourses in teacher meetings and the effectiveness of decision making in the processes of developing school based curriculum leadership. The book is theoretically exploratory with practically examined practices for educational leaders like schools headers and department leaders as well as teachers who aim at asserting greater influence in the educational decision making processes.Topics discussed in the book include: Curriculum leadership functions and patterns of leadership distribution Engaging teachers in reflective practice: tensions between ideological orientations and pragmatic considerations Models of distributed leadership: focus, development and future Initiating, designing and enacting curriculum innovations: procedures and processesThis book will appeal to researchers interested in Curriculum Studies, School leadership and comparative education. Those who studies the theory of education and Asian education will also find this book valuable.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-13
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia
Antal sidor244
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138857636

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Edmond Hau-fai Law is Professor in Curriculum & Instruction Department and a research fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, The Education University of Hong Kong. He was a visiting scholar at universities of Twente the Netherlands, Tokyo Gagukei and Kansai Osaka Japan, East China Normal and Shenyang Normal China. He has also served as external examiner for Ph.D. theses for universities Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Malaysia, Singapore, Twente, Brunei and Hong Kong. He worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on policy evaluation and pedagogical transformation projects in Asia Pacific region.

AcknowledgementsForwardPrefaceSection One LEADERSHIP APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Models of distributed leadership: focus, development and futureChapter 3. Initiating, designing and enacting curriculum innovations: procedures and processesSection Two CASE STUDIES OF CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TEAMSChapter 4. Developing curriculum leadership in a primary school Chapter 5. Impact of school-based curriculum innovations on teachers and studentsChapter 6. Effects of leadership styles on teacher participation distribution in the Mathematics curriculum development team: discourse and social network analysesChapter 7. Managing school-based curriculum innovations in a Chinese curriculum development team: discourse and social network analyses Chapter 8. Curriculum leadership functions and patterns of leadership distributionSection Three ACTIVITY THEORY AND CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVEChapter 9. Mediational functions of power and status on emergence of leadership propertiesChapter 10. Engaging teachers in reflective practice: tensions between ideological orientations and pragmatic considerationsChapter 11. ConclusionBiography of the author