A qualitative study on the components of teacher leadership based on the perspective of teacher behaviour

Abstract

Abstract Exploring the constituent elements of teacher leadership is an important research direction for bringing innovation and entrepreneurship within teacher leadership research. However, there are very few studies on the components of teacher leadership based on the perspective of innovative teacher behaviour. This paper uses the method of grounded theory and the three-level coding technology of the qualitative analysis software Nvivo12.0 to code and analyse 33 Chinese core journal texts about teacher leadership in the CNKI database. In these texts, teaching students in an innovative and entrepreneurial way is the fundamental element, leading colleagues and assisting leaders to represent higher-level relationship elements, serving society is the highest-level element, and developing oneself is the driving force that runs through the entire process. A deep understanding of the constituent elements and structural dimensions of teacher leadership can help promote innovation and entrepreneurship through teachers’ independent development, mutual assistance, and cooperation, improve teachers’ leadership performance, and promote the development of students and schools.

Keywords

• Teacher leadership
• Components
• Qualitative research
• Grounded theory