A Study Of The Principal’s Curriculum Leadership From The Perspective Of Learning Organization Theory

With the deepening of curriculum reform,principals,as the key to improve the quality of education and teaching,and to create a distinctive school brand,have attracted more and more attention from the academic community and the industry.The topic of principals’ curriculum leadership has also become an important research topic.The theory of learning organization was put forward by Peter Senge to help managers solve the problems in the development of enterprises.The theory tries to build and integrate the ability of vision,team learning,changing mind,self transcendence and systematic thinking,so as to build a flexible,flat and logical organizational form,form an organizational culture with good learning atmosphere and continuous learning ability,and innovate and surpass self to achieve common goals.The theory of learning organization puts forward the concept of "learning people" and "learning organization",explains the relationship between human development and organizational development,and reveals that the core competitiveness of enterprises is innovation ability,and the continuous innovation ability must come from the continuous learning of the team.The school is the home for principals,teachers and students to grow up together.It is a learning community with teaching and learning,and it has the distinct attribute of learning organization.Therefore,in a certain sense,learning organization theory can also be used as a methodological perspective to examine the issue of curriculum leadership of principals.From the perspective of learning organization,the principal’s curriculum leadership embodies the principal’s professional authority and leading characteristics.It is based on respecting the student’s learning subjectivity and promoting the development of student’s personality,and through the principal’s professional ability,it leads the school’s curriculum reform,curriculum development,curriculum experiment,curriculum evaluation and other activities.The principal curriculum leadership is rooted in the learning organization of the school.The two-dimensionalintegration of the learning organization theory and the principal curriculum leadership helps to improve the quality and efficiency of the school curriculum reform,and the school embodies five requirements in the practical dimension,namely,planning the curriculum vision,leading the curriculum reform;building the learning team,developing the school-based curriculum;changing the traditional curriculum concept,It is necessary to set up the concept of human-oriented curriculum,stimulate self potential,innovate curriculum culture,establish systematic thinking and integrate curriculum resources.In addition,the study explores the practice prospect,shortage and development opportunity of the principal’s curriculum leadership from the perspective of learning organization theory.It is found that y School of H city is based on the school situation,guided by the construction of modern curriculum system with humanistic care as the core idea,to build a team of learning teachers,refine the school curriculum culture,strengthen the overall development of curriculum resources,innovate the practical path of curriculum education,and help students develop in an all-round way.The shortage is that teachers’ self-development needs to be improved,and the opportunity for development lies in the realization of curriculum leadership in the practical dimension.The principal curriculum leadership is not only the objective need of building a modern school,but also the internal requirement of promoting the principal’s professional development.The application of learning organization theory in the curriculum leadership of the principal reflects the integration of management and pedagogy,which is conducive to the deepening of curriculum reform and the overall implementation of quality education.