Abstract:

The common phenomenon that teaching research in primary and secondary schools becomes a mere formality and its promoting effect on teachers' professional growth is not fully played is closely related to school management systems. From the perspective of school administrators, this study investigated the teaching and research of primary and secondary schools in X county of B city, and found that, on the one hand, schools are faced with the pressure of “hard regulations” to carry out teaching and research, but on the other hand, they can only make “soft constraints” on teachers' conduct of teaching and research. The reasons lie in the lack of schools' and teachers' autonomy and the weak incentives caused by principal-agent relationship. In order to get rid of these dilemmas, it is necessary to guarantee the autonomy of schools and teachers in teaching research, change the assessment mode of teaching research, and develop teachers' research ability as well as research-oriented culture in schools.

Key words: teaching research in primary and secondary school, professional autonomy, principal-agent relationship