Boundary Activities of Middle School Teacher Teams in a Global Era: Empirical Evidence from China

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Shengnan; Feng, Daming
Titel	Boundary Activities of Middle School Teacher Teams in a Global Era: Empirical Evidence from China
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 14 (2016) 1, S.92-108 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210315612648
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Middle School Teachers; Global Approach; Factor Analysis; Teamwork; Activities; Measures (Individuals); Structural Equation Models; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Globales Denken; Faktorenanalyse; Messdaten
Abstract	With the tide of globalization, the external environment that schools face turns uncertain and complex. In response to the new challenges, teacher teams need to manage boundaries to maintain the sustainable development. The two studies reported in this paper, aimed to examine the boundary activities of teacher teams of middle schools in China. In order to achieve the research objective, the first study employed an inductive approach to identify a set of boundary activities that teacher teams engage in to manage the relationships with the outside. In the second study, the exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to build a valid and reliable scale for the boundary activities of teacher teams. Data from 332 teachers of 72 subject-based "teaching study" teams in 12 middle schools indicate a four-factor model of teacher team boundary activities includes the following subscales: scouting activities; task-coordinating activities; information filtering activities; and emotion cultivating activities. Similarities and differences between the current findings and existing literature have been discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01