GED2882

Leadership and organisation

Associate Professor P C Gronn

12 points - 3 hours per week - Winter semester - Clayton

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have acquired a detailed knowledge and understanding of major issues, topics and trends in leadership theory and practice; an understanding and critical appreciation of the major international, national and local imperatives driving educational reform; skills in devising a range of planning techniques and documents (eg, strategy plans, mission statements, background briefing papers, evaluation proposals, restructuring plans and outcome based accountability packages); an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of ways of appraising and evaluating leadership performance in relation to targeted organisational outcomes (especially learning).

Synopsis In recent years there has been a world-wide resurgence in interest in leadership consequent upon globalisation and restructuring. This has seen the rise of a range of new models of leadership in education and a variety of new modes of organisation. This subject will help students identify and appraise such developments. The subject is organised around three modules and will consider a range of topics to do with historical and state-of-the-art trends in leadership, organisational culture and climate, leadership and organisational values, educational organisations as moral communities, recent national and international school reform initiatives, teacher leadership, effective leadership, problem solving, performance appraisal and organisational stewardship.

Assessment Essay (3000 words): 50% - Practical assignment (3000 words): 50%

Recommended texts

Hodgkinson C Educational leadership: The moral art SUNY Press, 1991
Lipman-Blumen J The connective edge: Leading in an interdependent world Jossey Bass, 1996
Townsend T (ed.) Restructuring and quality: Issues for tomorrow's schools Routledge, 1997

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