1st Edition
Teacher Empowerment and Cultural Context The Case of Brunei Darussalam
Chapter 1. Teacher empowerment
Chapter 2. The cultural context
Chapter 3. The role of school leaders in facilitating and/or impeding teacher empowerment
Chapter 4. The role of colleagues in facilitating and/or impeding teacher empowerment
Chapter 5. The role of students and parents in facilitating and/or impeding teacher empowerment
Chapter 6. Self-initiated empowering and disempowering behaviours of teachers
Chapter 7. Empowering/disempowering values, beliefs and dispositions of the individual teacher
Chapter 8. Teacher empowerment process in the study context vis-à-vis western conceptualization
Chapter 9. A proposed model of self-empowerment and disempowerment
Chapter 10. Implications and recommendations
Conclusion
References
Biography
Dr. Shanthi Thomas completed her PhD in Education at Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. She has ten years of experience as a teacher leader, as well as in teaching modules in the Masters in Education and Masters in Teaching courses at Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
"Why can't the Principal walk around and supervise our teaching?" This is a question which a group of teachers in a South East Asian country asked. Does this sound odd? Read this critical analysis of power dynamics in a school where teachers want their principal and supervisors to be strict and yet nurturing . They opt for a "nurturing power- over paradigm", instead of a "democratic power- with" paradigm. Here is a book that re-defines power and empowerment.
Dr. Thomas Abraham, Ruth Cohn Institute for Theme – Centred Interaction (TCI) India
This book attests to the pivotal role of teachers in the knowledge society and provides guidelines as to how to bring about their best in the South East Asian Cultural scenario.
Dr Somasekharan B Pillai, Fr. Porukara CMI College of Advanced Studies, Champakulam, India
