Do Teachers Wish to Be Agents of Change? (eBook, PDF)

Will Principals Support Them?

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Produktbeschreibung

This study surveyed principals and teachers in ten countries to compare principal and teacher attitudes toward the involvement of teachers in several change and development responsibilities. The participating countries were: Australia, Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, and United States. Each country administered mirror versions of a questionnaire to samples of at least 50 principals and at least 100 teachers.

The questionnaires listed twenty items describing change responsibilities in which teachers might become involved. For each item, both principals and teachers assigned two teacher involvement ratings: their personal preference, and their estimate of the preference of their role counterpart. These involvement ratings produced four dependent variables: Principal Preferences, Principal Estimates, Teacher Preferences, and Teacher Estimates. For each variable, item responses were clustered to form index sub-scores that measured attitudes toward five education domains: Administration and Coordination, Human Relations, Teacher Support, Classroom Learning, and Evaluation.

Systematic planned comparisons were conducted to determine the most important principal-teacher issues within and between countries, and how issues change across index domains. Typical results indicate low awareness of each other’s aspirations and expectations.

The first and last chapters of this book discuss the potential of teacher leaders to become agents of change within their own schools. Several social-psychological competencies are then described for these teachers in their work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sense Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789462099593
• Artikelnr.: 44224096

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; What This Study Is about: The Practical and Social-Psychological Conceptualization of the Study; Design and Sampling of the Cross-Cultural Study: Principal and Teacher Attitudes Towards Teacher Involvement in Change; Results of the Cross-Cultural Study: Comparing Principal and Teacher Attitudes Towards Teacher Involvement across Ten Countries; Teacher Involvement in Australia: “Teachers Have Much to Offer”; Teacher Involvement in Canada: Sharing Responsibility for Change Leadership in Canadian Schooling; Teacher Involvement in Policy Making in Chinese Schools; The Hungarian Education System in Transition: Shifting Towards Decentralization; Teacher Involvement in Decision Making in the Israeli School System; Teacher Responsibility-Taking for School Change & Professional Development in Japan; Teacher Participation in Policy Making in Dutch Schools; Singapore Engagement in Educational Change; Teacher Involvement in South Africa: Ongoing Change in South African Education; Teacher Participation in Responsibility-Taking in the United States School System; Summary and Conclusions: Implications for School Practice and Research; Teacher Leadership: The Significant Role of Teachers in School Change; Appendix.