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School Leadership for Learning and Change: Progress of an Asian Agenda

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Leadership in Diverse Learning Contexts

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This chapter outlines the background, purpose, strategies, and initial outcomes of one centre’s research agenda into school leadership and change in the East and South-East Asian region. The Centre is the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). The first section outlines research on the state of indigenous knowledge in the region. This provides the context and justification for our research agenda. The second section presents our purpose statements, the broad research agenda, and the projects under this agenda. The third section describes progress to date. The fourth section summarises some of the key contributions of the Centre – the intention here is to illustrate our outcomes. The final section summarises what we see as the major contributions of the Centre to date.

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  1. 1.

    For example, a donation from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in the USA was obtained to help support the 2012 Asia Leadership Roundtable. Funds from the Thailand Ministry of Education were employed to help support the 2011 Asia Leadership Roundtable. “Human resources” in the form of our International Research Fellows have been deployed onto various regional projects such as Prof. Bruce Barnett conducting training for our regional Fellows on qualitative data collection.

  2. 2.

    Examples include a project to conduct cultural validation of the PIMRS instrument used to assess principal instructional leadership, and a doctoral project to build data-collection capacity into a computer simulation used in training and education programs.

  3. 3.

    For example an EdD student is adapting our Making Change Happen computer simulation for use in the mainland China context. In a Regional Research Grant, a regional Research Fellow is leading a team of students in translating and adapting the same simulation for use in the Vietnamese education context.

  4. 4.

    School Leadership and Management (2011, 31(4)), Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (2011, 33(3)), School Effectiveness and School Improvement (2012, 23(4)), Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (2013, 35(3)), Peabody Journal of Education (2012, 87(2)), Educational Management Administration and Leadership (2013, 41(4)), Journal of Educational Administration (in progress).

  5. 5.

    For example, there are currently APCLC-sponsored Regional Research Grants involving collaboration between HKIEd and regional scholars in China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Moreover, an 8-country project on instructional leadership has been launched in 2011 staffed by our HKIEd staff and Regional Fellows.

  6. 6.

    Note that a number of the papers were co-authored and several of the authors contributed multiple papers across the different special issues.

  7. 7.

    For example, we note that the Centre’s directors, Professors Hallinger and Walker, have been primarily responsible for curriculum design and initial delivery of courses in the IEMA. This reflects the involvement of senior academics in the teaching programs. At the same time, we have involved at least six other HKIEd staff, ranging from Postdoctoral Fellows to Chair Professors, in the delivery of the IEMA. A similar approach has been taken with the teaching and supervision of EdD students. This reflects our understanding that long-term sustainability of these graduates requires capacity development, not sole reliance on senior staff.

  8. 8.

    Our analysis encompassed Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Educational Administration, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Educational Management Administration and Leadership, School Leadership and Management.

  9. 9.

    This characterisation of the selected journals is based on a combination of h-index ratings and published reputational rankings (e.g., Chernkowski et al. 2011 in Journal of Educational Administration).

  10. 10.

    Successfully completed special issues have been edited for School Leadership and Management (UK, edited by Hallinger and Walker 2011), Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (Australia, edited by Hallinger and Tjeldvoll 2011), Peabody Journal of Education (USA, edited by Cravens and Hallinger 2012) and School Effectiveness and School Improvement (Netherlands, edited by Hallinger and Huber, accepted for publication in 2012). Additional special issues are in progress including Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (Australia, edited by Mok and Hallinger 2013), Educational Management Administration and Leadership (UK, edited by Walker and Hallinger 2013).

  11. 11.

    Here we ONLY count speeches designated by the organiser as Keynote Presentations, not all conference presentations.

  12. 12.

    For example, see Hallinger et al. 2010; Hallinger and Lu 2011, and Hallinger and Lee 2011.

  13. 13.

    Chair Professors: Anthony B. L. Cheung, Y. C. Cheng, Magdalena M. C. Mok, Joshua K. H. Mok, Kerry Kennedy, Wang Wen Chung. Associate Professors: Edmond Law. Assistant Professors: Lee Moosung, Lu Jiafang, James Y. O. Ko, Kokila Roy, Lo Yuen Yee, Dora C. W. Ho, Joyce Li, Jun Li, Thomas Man, Pan Suyan.

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Walker, A., Hallinger, P. (2016). School Leadership for Learning and Change: Progress of an Asian Agenda. In: Johnson, G., Dempster, N. (eds) Leadership in Diverse Learning Contexts. Studies in Educational Leadership, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28302-9_8

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