Teacher Leadership and Teaming: Creativity within Schools in China

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 231 - 255, 15.12.2018

Carol A. Mullen Tricia Browne-ferrigno

https://doi.org/10.30828/real/2018.2.5

Cited By: 6

Abstract

Preparing today’s children and youth to become
active, responsive adults in transforming global societies requires that
schools change dramatically. To work towards this goal is daunting in light of
educational policies and school structures that hinder teamwork and creativity.
Despite challenges due to education policies, traditional school structures,
and teacher-culture expectations, teacher leadership and teamwork have
nonetheless emerged in many countries. This article reports interesting and
even surprising preliminary findings about education in China gathered through
onsite school observations and interviews with teachers and principals. The
popular belief that Chinese education is uniformly creatively impoverished and
that schools are nothing but robotic learning environments are dispelled.      

Keywords

China, Creative Education, Creativity, International Assessment, PreK–12 schools

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