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Chinese Educational Leaders' Conceptions of Learning
and Leadership. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 232
This book presents an interpretative study of an
Australian leadership development program conducted
in China. The study explored the conceptions of
learning and leadership brought by a group of
Chinese educational leaders to the course and
investigated the perceived influence of the course
upon their conceptions. It was a pre- and post-
comparison case study inspired by the
phenomenographic approach, that employed semi-
structured and in-depth interviews of twenty
participants over a 12-month period. This study
employed a culturally sensitive approach which
recognises that a complex interaction between
Chinese and Western cultures is occurring in the
participants. Comparison of their conceptions prior
to and after the course indicated an expanded range
of, and more complex conceptions. This study makes a
contribution to understanding Chinese educational
leaders’ conceptions of learning and leadership in
an international education context. Educationalists,
educational leadership researchers and policy makers
who read this will have a better understanding of
Chinese educators' responses to the new
demands of internationalisation.
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