Edmond Law

Developing Distributed Curriculum Leadership in Hong Kong Schools (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores 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. The findings shows 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 as well as teachers who aim at asserting greater influence in the educational decision making processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317512400
• Artikelnr.: 48185032

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Forward
Preface
Section One LEADERSHIP APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Models of distributed leadership: focus, development and future
Chapter 3. Initiating, designing and enacting curriculum innovations:
procedures and processes
Section Two CASE STUDIES OF CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
Chapter 4. Developing curriculum leadership in a primary school
Chapter 5. Impact of school-based curriculum innovations on teachers and
students
Chapter 6. Effects of leadership styles on teacher participation
distribution in the Mathematics curriculum development team: discourse and
social network analyses
Chapter 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
distribution
Section Three ACTIVITY THEORY AND CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP: AN ALTERNATIVE
PERSPECTIVEChapter 9. Mediational functions of power and status on
emergence of leadership properties
Chapter 10. Engaging teachers in reflective practice: tensions between
ideological orientations and pragmatic considerations
Chapter 11. Conclusion
Biography of the author