Researching the Development of Nonpositional Teacher Leadership in Kazakhstan

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Abstract

This paper provides an account of an action–based study, which was conducted with the purpose to develop teacher leadership in schools in Kazakhstan. The author draws on her experience of enabling teacher leadership in the post-soviet context of which Kazakhstan is one. The author highlights the role of teacher leadership as a vehicle for the bottom-up educational change and its importance in enhancing teachers’ role in educational reform.

Key words: teacher leadership, professional development, educational reform.

Author

• Gulmira Kanayeva, The University of Cambridge