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Direct linkJosephine Lau; Katja Vähäsantanen; Kaija Collin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Teachers are frontline actors in actualising educational innovations. In some contexts, teachers' professional agency is undervalued. This study investigated teachers' agency and its related workplace affordances in Hong Kong, which features a centralised-decentralisation education governance system, and a hierarchical work culture. The study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Cultural Context, Vertical Organization
Michelle Mingyu Gu; Lianjiang Jiang; Wanyu Amy Ou – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decades have witnessed an increasing number of studies documenting native English teachers' (NETs') challenges in professional development and collaboration with nonnative English teachers' (NNETs') across multiple educational contexts. There are also debates in TESOL regarding the essentialized dichotomy of NETs and NNETs with…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Multilingualism, Teacher Characteristics, English (Second Language)
Li, Lijuan; Hallinger, Philip; Kennedy, Kerry John; Walker, Allan – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
This study tests mediated principal leadership effects on teacher professional learning through collegial trust, communication and collaboration in Hong Kong primary schools. It is based on a series of single mediator studies, and uses the same convenience sample of 970 teachers from 32 local primary schools. It also adopts regression-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Faculty Development
Download full textPow, Jacky; Wong, Marina – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
It is commonly believed that small class teaching can greatly enhance student learning because the individual needs of each student can be better addressed, the students can learn more through more innovative and flexible teaching methods and the students have more time to interact with each other and to gain feedback from their teachers. Although…
Descriptors: Small Classes, Curriculum Implementation, Work Environment, Performance Factors
Shun-wing Ng; Tsan-ming Kenneth Chan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study regarding the present situation of middle managers in schools; their professional development needs; and requirements of middle leaders for quality school management so that contents of existing professional development programmes could be improved to meet the needs of middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Elementary Schools, Middle Management
Chan, Anita K. W. – Gender and Education, 2011
Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Masculinity
