Leading for Whom? Teaching-Research Officers' Role Perception and Work Engagement in Chinese Mainland

作     者：Wei Shen Hongmei Ma 沈伟;马红梅

作者机构：East China Normal University Department of Education Economics and AdministrationCentral China Normal UniversityHongshan DistrictWuhanChina 

出 版 物：《ECNU Review of Education》 (华东师大教育评论（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第5卷第3期

页      面：491-508页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

基　　金：The research for this article was supported by the Ministry of Education Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities under the Key Program“Reconstructing the Teaching and Research System in Schools to Promote Classroom Transformation”[Grant Number 16JJD880024] 

主　　题：Role perception teacher leader work engagement 

摘      要：Purpose:Thepurpose of this article is toanalyzeboth teaching-research officers (TROs)role perceptions and work engagement,figuring out how their competing roles are balanced to ensure continued work engagement and which roles havegreater benefits to the community and educational ***/Approach/Methods:The study employs a questionnaire,which is composed of an inventory of work role requirements and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale,to investigate TROs role perception,work engagement,and their ***:TROs work experience had a complicated relationship with their work *** two strands of the TROs role orientation co-existed within their daily work and strengthened each other through exerting effects on the dedication and absorption aspects of work ***,TROs concerned with teacher development displayed higher work engagement than those who put a greater emphasis on policy ***/Value:The study contributes to current research in three ***,it bridges the macro-level trend of education reform with micro-level role internalization of ***,it broadens our understanding of work engagement by linking it with the subjective perceptions of one s work ***,this Chinese case is expected to enrich international perspectives on teacher leaders in the context of top-down districtwide instructional reform.