The Practice of Distributed Leadership in a Learning Community – A Case Study on a Chinese Literature Learning Community in a Junior High School

• Main Authors: Yun-Hsuan Hsu, 許筠萱
• Other Authors: Hui-Ling Pan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/szv344

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士班 === 103 === 　　This case study used the perspective of distributed leadership to investigate the development of a Chinese Literature Teacher Learning Community (LC) in a junior high school. The foci of this study were on how the leadership styles of three administrative leaders, including the principal, the director of academic affairs, and the coordinator of Chinese Literature, influenced the development of the Chinese Literature Teacher Learning Community. The context of the LC, the difficulties and solutions that the LC had encountered were also explored. In this study, the research methods included interviews with the three leaders and one teacher member of the learning community. Document analysis and field observations were also used. The data collected were triangulated. And the findings are as follows: 1. The faith and tradition and teachers’ enthusiastic vitality as the school context that the distributed leadership was exerted to promote the development of the Chinese Literature Teacher Learning Community in the school. 2. The roles played by the director of the academic affairs and the coordinator of Chinese Literature had positive impact on the learning community. 3. The Chinese Literature Teacher Learning Community had encountered challenges such as the "community development problem" and the "teaching technique problems.” The community predicaments were solved by using government policy plan to construct a common communication curriculum map and guiding members to enhance professional capacity. 　　Finally, based on the findings and conclusions of the study, suggestions for school administrators, school teachers, and the future study were proposed.