Educational Leadership and Management

The module introduces students to the key challenges currently faced by educational leaders globally, across various contexts and educational settings such as schools, colleges, and higher education. These challenges are examined from a multi-level perspective, encompassing micro (individual), meso (institutional), and macro (national/global) levels. Building on this foundation, the module provides students with a comprehensive and critical understanding of how these challenges intersect with real-world practice.

The module will address the essential features of effective learning, as relevant to your sector by examining:

• the process of learning
• supporting learning (for example, through adults, peers and technology) both within and beyond the educational organisation
• an overview of approaches to improvement and raising achievement in educational organisations
• monitoring and evaluation of learning: the use of data, target-setting, monitoring

The content will involve you in active critical consideration of participating in and leadership of practitioner inquiry in relation to professional context mapping and workplace learning.

These processes will be achieved through:

• conceptualising different kinds of practitioner inquiry relevant to work-based understanding and development (purposes, processes, contexts, dilemmas, outcomes)
• examining a range of approaches to educational inquiry, with an emphasis on action research
• developing an inquiry into your professional context

This module will address the nature and practice of leadership in education. It will look at six themes:

• Concepts of leadership
• Change
• Leadership qualities, behaviours and competencies
• Power and authority
• Organisational cultures and distributed leadership
• Professional development

This involves the researching and writing of a substantive piece of scholarship within the field of the course.

You will choose a topic in consultation with your course leader and an appropriate supervisor. The topic will normally be based on interests and skills you have developed in the course of the modules already studied.