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April 15, 2026Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Social justice directed instructional leadership: Does it make a difference for teacher professional learning

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SLS. M. LiuPHPhilip HallingerSCSi Chen

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Examines the impact of instructional leadership on teacher learning, suggesting an equity focus is essential.

Key Points

  • The research aims to explore how principal instructional leadership affects teacher professional learning, particularly through the lens of social justice leadership.
  • Surveyed 3219 teachers from 121 Chinese primary and middle schools
  • Employed a multilevel moderated mediation model for analysis
  • Analyzed relationships among leadership types, teacher resilience, and professional learning
  • Instructional leadership has a positive effect on teacher professional learning, both directly and through resilience
  • Social justice leadership enhances the link between instructional leadership and teacher resilience
  • Lower levels of social justice leadership diminish the significance of the link to teacher professional learning

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Liu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69df2c88e4eeef8a2a6b1c0bhttps://doi.org/10.1177/17411432261441720
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