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Vice-Principals as Leaders: Role Ambiguity and Role Conflicts Faced by Vice-Principals in Singapore
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Ho, Jeanne; Shaari, Imran; Kang, Trivina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This article examines what vice-principals in Singapore experience as constraints to their leadership practice, and how they deal with these constraints, cognisant that role misalignment for vice-principals presents barriers to schools achieving optimal effectiveness. This qualitative study seeks to hear the voices of vice-principals, to uncover…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Barriers, Administrator Role
An Exploration into Key Roles in Making Project-Based Learning Happen: Insights from a Case Study of a University
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Pan, Gary; Seow, Poh-Sun; Shankararaman, Venky; Koh, Kevin – Journal of International Education in Business, 2021
Purpose: One of the main obstacles facing project-based learning (PBL) adoption relates to a lack of understanding by teachers and students in the roles they are required to play in the learning process. This study aims to address this obstacle, so as to better promote regular adoption of PBL pedagogy in educational institutions.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Problem Based Learning, Teacher Role
Relationships between Policy, Teachers' Values and Professional Capital in Teacher Collaboration in Hierarchical Chinese Societies
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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2022
Purpose: Both Hong Kong and Singapore leverage teacher collaboration to improve student learning, but state reforms differ in how teacher collaborative capabilities are prioritized. This paper provides a nuanced comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore teachers' values (risk-taking, power distance and uncertainty avoidance) to develop insights into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Values, Teacher Attitudes
Transformational Change in Instruction with Professional Learning Communities? The Influence of Teacher Cultural Disposition in High Power Distance Contexts
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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin; Lee, Wing On – Journal of Educational Change, 2018
This mixed-methods study employed Hargreaves and Fullan's (Professional capital: transforming teaching in every school, Teachers College Press, New York, 2012) concept of professional capital to re-examine whether professional learning communities (PLCs) transformed instructional practices in contexts that endorse hierarchical cultures. PLCs that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Communities of Practice, Transformative Learning, Educational Practices
Professional Learning Communities in Singapore and Shanghai: Implications for Teacher Collaboration
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Hairon, Salleh; Tan, Charlene – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have been recognised as having the potential to raise the quality of teachers, teaching and student learning through structured teacher collaboration, and have been featured prominently in Singapore and Shanghai--both considered top-performing Asian societies in the Program for International Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Comparative Analysis
Singapore Schools and Professional Learning Communities: Teacher Professional Development and School Leadership in an Asian Hierarchical System
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Hairon, Salleh; Dimmock, Clive – Educational Review, 2012
While the literature on professional learning communities (PLCs) has proliferated, much of it derived from and contextualised in Anglo-American settings, the concept and practice of PLCs in Asian contexts of strong hierarchies have largely been ignored. Based on literature and documentary analysis, this paper investigates the systemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Communities of Practice