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Published Aug 27, 2025

Baohua Jiang  

Abstract

The academic tribe-based master teacher studio, as a new pattern of teacher professional development in China, has the potential to circumvent the limitations of traditional master teacher workshops, such as insularity, experience-focused tendency, insensitivity to emerging technologies, unbalanced engagement between members, and rigid mechanisms. This article is a discussion of the chief characteristics and working mechanics of the academic tribe-based master teacher studio. The studio provides an open, intelligent platform for teacher professional growth with the adoption of distributed leadership, collaborative research, and intelligent technology. Focusing on learning, research, and scaling as three core tasks for its teacher members, it plays the concomitant roles as an intelligent learning center, an authentic teaching issue-focused lab, and a research outcome scaling center, aiming to offer the teachers all-round support in personalized learning, teaching problem solution, and research outcome dissemination.

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Keywords

Master Teacher Studio, Academic Tribe, Teacher Professional Development, Basic Education

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No funding sources declared.

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How to Cite
Jiang, B. (2025). Academic Tribe-Based Master Teacher Studios in China: New Characteristics and New Mechanics. Science Insights Education Frontiers, 29(2), 4803–4815. https://doi.org/10.15354/sief.25.re577
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