ERIC Number: EJ1156014
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 20
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Mediating Effects of Trust, Communication, and Collaboration on Teacher Professional Learning in Hong Kong Primary Schools
Li, Lijuan; Hallinger, Philip; Kennedy, Kerry John; Walker, Allan
International Journal of Leadership in Education, v20 n6 p697-716 2017
This study tests mediated principal leadership effects on teacher professional learning through collegial trust, communication and collaboration in Hong Kong primary schools. It is based on a series of single mediator studies, and uses the same convenience sample of 970 teachers from 32 local primary schools. It also adopts regression-based macros, integrated with bootstrapping, to examine and compare sizes and proportions of potential mediating effects of the three human relational variables. The findings affirm the role and nature trust, communication, and collaboration play in the mediated relationship. In contrast, the mediating power of collaboration is non-significantly stronger than that of communication, and is more than double that of trust. The conclusion is that a school environment featuring mutual trust, effective communication and genuine collaboration is a core condition for teacher learning and change. Provided that the forces that bind people together in schools are multiple, principals are recommended to create school culture and conditions strategically for teacher learning to thrive.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Faculty Development, Collegiality, Trust (Psychology), Interpersonal Communication, Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers, Work Environment, Statistical Analysis, Questionnaires, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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