Abstract
The development of an innovative teaching force is highly related to talent cultivation and educational modernization. However, few studies have explored how to build an innovative teaching team by empowering teachers through distributed leadership. Based on TALIS 2018 data for teachers in Shanghai, China, this study explores the influence of distributed leadership on teacher innovation in an Asian context. The results show that distributed leadership can significantly promote both team and individual innovation by transforming the school structure and teacher agency as well as structure-agency interaction. Namely, teacher collaboration and self-efficacy partially mediate the relationship between distributed leadership and teacher innovation, and collaboration-teacher self-efficacy has a chain mediating effect on this relationship. Such effects of distributed leadership on teacher innovation have also been verified in South Korea and Singapore. Therefore, to develop an innovative teaching force in Asian contexts, it is necessary to enhance principals’ distributed leadership and further create a collaborative climate under distributed leadership.
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