Lin Qi
Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 27;13:948152. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.948152. eCollection 2022.
Principals' distributed leadership plays a critical role in teacher innovativeness; however, research evidence regarding the relationship between them is limited. This study aims at examining the effect of distributed leadership on teacher innovativeness as well as the mediating roles of teacher autonomy and professional collaboration. Using the data of 132,376 teachers derived from the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), the study applied a structural equation model (SEM) for analysis. The results revealed that distributed leadership had positive direct effects on teacher innovativeness, teacher autonomy, and professional collaboration. Meanwhile, teacher autonomy and professional collaboration significantly mediated the effect of distributed leadership on teacher innovativeness, respectively. Practical implications are discussed, school leaders are expected to adopt distributed leadership style and establish a supportive school environment, and individual teachers are supposed to cultivate a culture of collectivism and make effective use of autonomy in their teaching innovation.
校长的分布式领导在教师创新方面发挥着关键作用；然而，关于两者之间关系的研究证据有限。本研究旨在考察分布式领导对教师创新的影响以及教师自主性和专业合作的中介作用。该研究使用了来自2018年国际教学调查（TALIS）的132376名教师的数据，应用结构方程模型（SEM）进行分析。结果显示，分布式领导对教师创新、教师自主性和专业合作具有积极的直接影响。同时，教师自主性和专业合作分别显著中介了分布式领导对教师创新的影响。文中讨论了实际意义，期望学校领导采用分布式领导风格并营造支持性的学校环境，而个体教师应培养集体主义文化并在教学创新中有效利用自主性。
