This research studies teachers’ situated learning in school authority culture with case study, taking one high-quality primary school as an example. The author interviews 26 teachers (including school leaders) in total, participates in more than 20 school training and meeting, obtains first-hand research data , analyses it with coding method of case study, and concludes research findings.

On the basis of summarizing the data, this research classifies teachers’ situated learning in school authority culture into four types, including teachers’ institutional situated learning under power authority,teachers’ team situated learning under professional authority,teachers’ relationship situated learning under identity authority and teachers’ spatial situated learning under tacit authority. The research analyses the driving force, process and results of each type of teachers’ situated learning, as well as the characteristics of it. It also analyses the influencing factors of teachers’ situated learning in school authority culture.

This study analyses and discusses three viewpoints about teachers’ situated learning in school authority culture.Firstly, teachers’ situated learning in school authority culture is a kind of social and cultural practical learning, which has the characteristics of power, culture, relationship, situation, practice.It can become a bridge connecting teaching concept with practice.Secondly, teachers’ situated learning under the influence of school authority leadership has multiple results. It promotes the formation or consolidation of the dominant position of the organization, as well as teachers’ extended learning and ability improvement. It leads to conflicts between school  leadership  and  teachers’  pressure,  control   and  freedom,  efficiency      and fairness.Thirdly, teachers’ situated learning in school authority culture has multiple results.It promotes the formation of the “differential order” of school teachers,as well as the production and reproduction of authority culture, concept, identity and practical mode.It causes contradiction between authority, hierarchy, and independent thinking, personality, equality, dignity.