Understanding China’s School Leadership

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. China’s School Leadership: An Overview

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 1-40Open Access

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3. The Policy Regarding Principal Management

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 41-70Open Access

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4. Creating a Culture Fostering Student Development

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 71-95Open Access

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5. Guiding and Facilitating Teacher Development

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 97-124Open Access

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6. Planning School Development

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 125-162Open Access

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7. Leading the Curriculum and Instruction

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 163-197Open Access

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8. Optimizing Internal Management

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 199-229Open Access

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9. Accommodating the external environment

   • Daming Feng

   Pages 231-256Open Access

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10. Back Matter

    Pages 257-278

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This open access book outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. It reveals and interprets the real meaning of these practical terms based on existing laws, government documents, school policy texts as well as the latest empirical findings from school leaders and teachers’ surveys and interviews in China. Providing a holistic picture of China’s school leadership through the unique meanings of these terms, the book offers researchers and graduate students insights into school leadership practice and its context in China. Thus, it would likely intensify readers’ knowledge base to analyse and interpret the phenomenon and research data regarding China’s school leadership.

• China’s Education
• School Leadership
• Leadership Context
• School Organizational System
• School Policy
• Leadership Strategies
• Curriculum Leadership
• Instructional Leadership
• Teacher Development
• Student Supervision
• Open Access

• Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

  Daming Feng

Dr. Daming Feng is Professor of Educational Administration at the Faculty of Education, East China Normal University (ECNU). He is also a research fellow at the ECNU-based National Institute of Basic Education Reform & Development, Ministry of Education (MOE) and a senior research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Center for Leadership and Change, Hong Kong University of Education. He has served as a member of the Standing Committee of China National Academic Council for Educational Administration, as well as an expert for MOE National Key Teacher Training Programs and as the qualification reviewer for the Top-grade Teacher & Superfine Teacher, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (SMEC).


He was formerly the Associate Chairperson of the Committee for Theory Study of National Association of Adult Education, the Deputy Director of the Training Department at the National Training Center for High School Principals of MOE, secretary general of the UNESCO-APEID Associated Center at ECNU, expert for the OECD-TALIS program at Shanghai, SMEC and Dean of the College for Continuing Education and Executive Director of the Center for Teacher Development at ECNU.


In the last decade, his books, chapters, and articles concerning educational leadership, management & administration in Chinese contexts, leadership for learning in China’s disadvantaged schools, CPD for K-12 teachers, and school leadership development have been published in China, the USA, the UK, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.

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