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Developing Distributed Curriculum Leadership in Hong Kong Schools book cover

1st Edition

Developing Distributed Curriculum Leadership in Hong Kong Schools

By Edmond Law Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
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 PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 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

Biography

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.

Due to the historical review of the research on leadership studies, the focus on curriculum, the review of case studies, the presentation of new data and its international reference and reach, this is a powerful book. – William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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