School Knowledge Management And Teachers' Professional Development

The 21st century is the era of knowledge economy, the new education reform causes the school faced with challenge of era development. The knowledge management started and the utilization has provided the premise and the condition for the school knowledge management, Also provided the new mentality and the management patterns. Based on the theory of knowledge management, the nature of knowledge management in school is the management of information and people, and its aim is the production, storage, transfer, sharing and innovation of education knowledge. It also causes the school to become the knowledge organization, and promote teachers' development.Literature review,questionnaire survey,interview and case study were conducted in this thesis. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the current status of the knowledge management and teachers' professional development in middle schools, to explore the influence factors on knowledge management and teachers' professional development.The first part is the introduction illustrating the reason and the aim of research and related literature review. On the basis of large quantity of related literature from domestic and abroad, and analyze the origin and the research situation about the domestic and foreign knowledge management and knowledge management in educations domain, and further illustrates the importance, and lack of research at present as well as the attention in domestic. The second part is the designs of research and some important concepts, to introduce the scope and the targets of the research, the methods and the steps. The third part is the results of the research. The factors analyzed by using SPSS statistics software to analyze the data, to examine the correlation between knowledge management and teachers' professional development, and to analyze the influence of teachers' background variables, schools' background variables and knowledge management toward teachers' professional development. By discussing the function of knowledge management to the teachers' professional development, we have discovered the school knowledge management cognition good then teacher individual knowledge management cognition better, and the teacher individual knowledge management level is higher. It is more advantageous to teacher's professional development. the conclusion which obtains through interviews further and case study confirmed the questionnaire survey result, causes the research conclusion to be more accurate and persuasive. Finally, based on the results, suggestions for education administration agencies, middle schools, teachers and future study were proposed.