Perspectives on School Leadership in Asia Pacific Contexts

Dr Salleh Hairon is an Associate Professor, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests center on school leadership for teacher learning in communities, comprising topics on distributed leadership, teacher leadership, professional learning communities, teachers’ professional development, and action research.Dr Jonathan Wee Pin Goh is an Associate Professor, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His teaching and research interests include educational marketing, school leadership, student learning approaches, intercultural communication competence, and cross-cultural aspects of service quality perceptions, as well as customer satisfaction and motivation. In recent years he has increasingly focused on measurement, evaluation and psychometrics, includingdata analysis techniques such as Rasch analysis and hierarchical linear modeling.

• 1 Introduction: School Leadership and Its Context.- 2 Understanding Distributed Leadership Practices in the Cultural Context of Singapore Schools.- 3 Leading and Managing Schools in Indonesia: Historical, Political and Socio-cultural Forces.- 4 Changing Practices of School Leadership in Taiwan: Evolving Education Reforms.- 5 System-Wide Educational Reform Agenda in Shanghai Supporting Leadership for Learning.- 6 Leadership for Teacher Professional Learning: A Case Study of Two 'New-High-Quality' Primary Schools in Shanghai.- 7 Vulnerability as a Gear for School Reform: A Case of Mr Toshiaki Ose.- 8 School Leaders in the Midst of Reforms: Crisis and Catharsis in the Philippine Education System.- 9 Leadership for Instructional Uncertainty Management: Revisiting School Leadership in South Korea's Context of Educational Reform.- 10 National Policies, Education Reforms and Leadership Training and Development: Towards Building a Critical Force of Scholar Leaders in Malaysia.- 11 Conclusion.