Research in Teacher Leadership in Canada: Transformative and Contextualized Agency
Date
2025
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Publisher
Canadian Association of Teacher Education
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Description
This volume is the product of the collaboration of invited participants and editors at the Twelfth Working Conference of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education that was held at Brandon University from October 12-14, 2023. The focus of the conference was to bring together Canadian scholars engaged in teacher leadership, to engage in professional dialogue, to build a learning community, and to publish quality research. Teacher leaders operate “within and beyond the classroom” (Katzenmeyer & Moller, 2009, p. 5) to provide transformative leadership that fosters change in educational contexts. Localized knowledge, professional competence, and strong lateral relationships equip teacher leaders with the skills, confidence, and agency, to develop equitable learning networks, build capacity in others, and strengthen educational outcomes. The book is organized into four sections: A) Researching Teacher Leadership within K–12 Classrooms and Schools; B) Researching Teacher Leadership within K–12 School Systems; C) Researching Teacher Leadership beyond K–12 School Systems; and D) Researching Teacher Leadership within K–12 School Systems, and E) Researching Post-Secondary Teacher Leadership beyond Teacher Education Programs. This 26-chapter volume offers timely, high quality, context-specific research that makes a distinctively Canadian contribution to scholarship in the field of teacher leadership.