Effective professional development as cultural exchange: opportunities offered by visits of headteacher groups from Malaysia to the UK

Burstow, Bob

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“…In Aiping, (2007) has found out two big challenges that caused failure in the implementation of Cluster School in Namibia were lack of supporting system and sources.In addition to that, there is a lot of researches related with Cluster School but preferred for leadership in details. One of them is from Burstow's (2009) research that analyzed about a cohort of headmasters of Malaysians secondary schools for those were sent to the United Kingdom for a course then found out the difference between language and context as a barrier of the issues they have been experienced there. Otherwise, Fiona Dwyer repeated the statement from a headmaster of Mataroa school which tells that headmasters in di Taihape have faced a big challenge to deal with preferring the successful of school administration or the leadership of education.…”

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Cluster Schools of Excellence: Concept and Implementation

Nor¹,

Hamzah²,

Razak³

2019

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This article is based on the past researches related with the Cluster Schools of Excellence which has built under the Fundamental Scheme of the Foundation Education (PIPP 2006(PIPP -2010. It also talks about the concept of Cluster School that coversits background, characteristics, implementation and past researches on its intensity of academic performance. Some further researches are necessary to cultivate its interest and trail to successfully encourage them with respect to the vision and mission of the Ministry of Education Malaysia which is boosting the excellence of education institution.

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Cluster Schools of Excellence: Concept and Implementation

Nor¹,

Hamzah²,

Razak³

2019

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“…Detailed explorations of how leadership learning takes place is under-researched, particularly where an international context is involved. This paper does not focus on an exchange perspective (though that did form part of the broader aims of the programme) which as Burstow (2009) points out has many challenges. Instead, the paper leads with the idea that international study visits can provide important critical reflection opportunities for groups of leaders to form new understandings about themselves and the settings in which they work.…”

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Enhancing school leadership through an international study visit

Cramp

2016

Professional Development in Education

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This paper explores the outcomes of a school leadership study visit to India. The research critiques the competency based frameworks common in English leadership development programmes and argues instead, for an approach that challenges assumptions in a fresh context for learning and considers leadership as a process of humanisation. Using Mezirow's 'perspective transformations' as a starting point, the paper briefly outlines what was learned on the visit; but more importantly, the paper focuses on how that learning took place. Activities that proved particularly valuable are discussed. Importantly, the research found that informal opportunities for learning sliding into the spaces around formal events, were often responsible for unexpected and influential perspective transformations and that these opportunities for learning are often undervalued. The research concludes that international study visits where participants agree their own collective agendas and develop a trusted validating community group are more valuable than transmission models of leadership learning. Finally, the paper briefly returns to the notion of leadership as a process of humanisation and suggests that seen in this way, the pursuit of community becomes a more highly valued outcome for leadership learning

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A case study of early career secondary teachers’ perceptions of their preparedness for teaching: lessons from Australia and Spain

Noguera

McCluskey

2016

Teacher Development

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Effective professional development as cultural exchange: opportunities offered by visits of headteacher groups from Malaysia to the UK

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Cluster Schools of Excellence: Concept and Implementation

Cluster Schools of Excellence: Concept and Implementation

Enhancing school leadership through an international study visit

A case study of early career secondary teachers’ perceptions of their preparedness for teaching: lessons from Australia and Spain

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