Teacher Empowerment and Cultural Context: The Case of Brunei Darussalam

ISBN-13: 9781138302365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 120 str.

Shanthi Thomas

Opis

This book treads new ground by redefining Teacher Empowerment in the cultural context of South East Asia. Covering more than just empowering leadership in schools, the author explores how colleagues, parents, and students empower teachers, and how teachers empower themselves.

Spis treści

Preface
Chapter 1. Teacher empowerment
Chapter 2. The cultural context
Chapter 3. The role of school leaders in facilitating and/or impeding teacher empowerment
Chapter 4. The role of colleagues in facilitating and/or impeding teacher empowerment
Chapter 5. The role of students and parents in facilitating and/or impeding teacher empowerment
Chapter 6. Self-initiated empowering and disempowering behaviours of teachers
Chapter 7. Empowering/disempowering values, beliefs and dispositions of the individual teacher
Chapter 8. Teacher empowerment process in the study context vis-à-vis western conceptualization
Chapter 9. A proposed model of self-empowerment and disempowerment
Chapter 10. Implications and recommendations
Conclusion
References

O autorze

Dr. Shanthi Thomas completed her PhD in Education at Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. She has ten years of experience as a teacher leader, as well as in teaching modules in the Masters in Education and Masters in Teaching courses at Universiti Brunei Darussalam.