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Deciphering Chinese school leadership : conceptualisation, context and complexities / Allan Walker and Haiyan Qian.

Van Pelt Library LB2945 .W27 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walker, Allan, 1956- author.
Qian, Haiyan, author.
Series:
Routledge series on schools and schooling in Asia
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
School management and organization--China.
School management and organization.
Educational leadership.
China.
Educational leadership--China.
Physical Description:
xix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Summary:
"With existing educational leadership models and theories being predominantly western influenced, this book aims to provide more insight into school leadership in China. It pioneers building research- and practice-informed knowledge and unravels the complexities that characterize the scholarship, context and practices of school leadership. School leadership in China is presented through four sub-purposes: investigating how Chinese school leadership is conceptualized in the international and Chinese literature; exploring the shifting context within which Chinese school leaders enact their leadership, and examining key policies that have shaped the practice of leader development; extending the understandings about the complexities of work lives of Chinese school leaders; and further locating indigenous understandings of Chinese school leadership in the political and socio-cultural context of contemporary China, and the theoretical and conceptual context of international school leadership. This text will be particularly useful to international education researchers with focus on educational leadership, comparative education, education policy and education in China" -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Leadership in China: traditional expectations and cultural underpinnings
Conceptualisation
School leadership in China 1998-2016: a review of non-empirical Chinese literature
School leadership in China 1998-2016: a review of empirical Chinese literature
School leadership in China 1998-2016: a review of English literature
Context
The quest for quality: education reforms since 1985
The quest for equity: the education of migrant children in Shanghai
Reform disconnection in China
Principal development policy in China (1989-2016)
Complexities
Implementing curriculum reform: leading teacher learning
Leading with empathy
Building and leading a learning culture
Leading as state agents: narratives of shanghai principals
Leading schools with migrant children in Shanghai
Leadership for learning in Chinese schools
Deciphering school leadership in China: emerging propositions and future directions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781138957046
1138957046
OCLC:
1010584997

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