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Ye, Wangbei – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2022
Purpose: This paper explores education group school principal's influence on professional learning community (PLC) development in China. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative comparative case studies were conducted. Findings: The findings show that principals indicated principal-level factors were their major concerns regarding PLC cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Principals, Faculty Development
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Zhang, Wei – Education 3-13, 2019
This paper considers the effectiveness of leadership development (LD) processes in relation to school leaders' needs within an eastern Chinese District Education Bureau (DEB). The analysis is based on Chinese and English sources relating to LD, documentary analysis of DEB initiatives and interviews with ten school leaders from two schools. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities
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Gao, Xingyuan; Xia, Jiangang; Shen, Jianping; Ma, Xin – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Successful school leadership is highly contextually dependent. However, few studies focused on the comparisons of school leadership across different countries. Even among the existing studies, comparisons tend to be conducted with the assumption that the underlying factorial structure of the construct is the same. In this study, school principal's…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Principals, Decision Making
Fraillon, Julian; Schulz, Wolfram; Ainley, John – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
This report presents findings from the Asian regional module of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). ICCS studied the ways in which young people in lower-secondary schools are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Grade 8
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Mercer, David; Ri, Lai – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2006
This article explores the role of heads of department in a small sample of secondary schools in the People's Republic of China. The research which underpins the article consisted of data collected from school teachers and headteachers of the case study schools. The outcome was that there is a large gap between how middle managers perceive their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Department Heads, Secondary Schools, Administrator Role