Author(s)

Jia Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ The Education University of Hong Kong, Xinjie Hong Kong, China

Corresponding Author

Jia Huang

ABSTRACT

With the two major curriculum reforms in Taiwan, the importance of curriculum leadership has become more prominent and has received more attention. However, there is less research and development on curriculum leadership in Taiwanese schools. In this context, this paper combines the characteristics of the most crucial "unfreezing" phase in Lewin's change model, and provides a direction for developing school leaders' curriculum leadership in the context of the new curriculum reform in Taiwan through a guiding framework consisting of six dimensions. It is hoped that it will help curriculum leaders to carry out curriculum reform more confidently and fill some research gaps.

KEYWORDS

Curriculum Leadership, Curriculum Reform, Leaders, Taiwan, Unfreezing

CITE THIS PAPER

Jia Huang, Curriculum Leaders Accommodating to Taiwan's Educational Reform in the Unfreezing Phase. Transactions on Comparative Education (2023) Vol. 5: 13-17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2023.050303.

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