ABSTRACT

Although distributed leadership and inquiry-based working are relevant topics to primary education, there has been little discussion about how team members perceive these practices as meaningful in their day-to-day work. Following on from prior quantitative studies, the present study conducted a case study in which semi-structured interviews were employed to collect data. The findings suggested that teachers and their principal perceive distributed leadership and inquiry-based working as crucial to realizing educational change. More specifically, the case study showed how inquiry-based working could support distributed leadership and teachers’ ability to take the initiative to create educational change. Specifying the relationships could help teachers and school leaders to consciously leverage distributed leadership and inquiry-based working techniques to fully meet students’ needs.

摘要

尽管分布式领导和基于探究的工作是小学教育的相关主题，但很少有关于团队成员如何在日常工作中认为这些做法有意义的讨论。继先前的定量研究之后，本研究进行了一个案例研究，其中采用了半结构化访谈来收集数据。调查结果表明，教师及其校长认为分散的领导和基于探究的工作对于实现教育变革至关重要。更具体地说，该案例研究表明，基于查询的工作如何支持分布式领导和教师主动创造教育变革的能力。