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EDF5620 - Leading education and work

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Education

Coordinator(s)

Ms Kristin Reimer

Offered

Clayton

First semester 2016 (Flexible)

Synopsis

This unit engages prospective and practising educational leaders across organisational contexts. In this unit, both research and practice are used to view the challenges and work of leading educational projects, organisations and institutions. It considers the nature of professional leadership work in educational contexts where global as well as national-local imperatives are significant. Leadership is considered as a relational and collaborative activity that reaches into all parts of an organisation and is not confined to the work of senior staff or designated positions. Through this unit, students come to understand three aspects of the practical work of being a professional who leads in learning contexts: assessing research knowledge, understanding policy and practice in context, and developing understandings of the self, organisational capability and strategic leadership. This understanding is achieved specifically through students' investigation of a case or problem of educational change in a specific setting of their own choice.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

understand the work of professionals in strategic leadership of learning across globalised contexts
understand, analyse and apply the concepts of policy studies, leadership and governance to leading learning
relate knowledge of research, policy and of self to the practical work of leading learning
apply concepts and perspectives to show understanding of leading educational work in a specific case and interpret its significance
analyse strategic directions and organisational change strategies adopted to lead learning contexts.

Assessment

Educational change report stage 1: critical assessment of the case/problem in context (3200 words, 40%)
Educational change report stage 2: discussion paper on leading education work in the case (4800 words, 60%)

Workload requirements

Flexible mode offers a stand-alone online offering that allows students to learn and engage in content and assessment in a supported way. It also provides a face-to-face component of 12 hours over the semester to engage students with the online learning content, which students can attend if they are able and interested.

Minimum total expected workload equals 288 hours per semester comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for flexible students:

12 contact hours and 24 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester or
36 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

independent study to meet the minimum required hours per semester

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Susan Webb

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Adult learning
Digital learning
Early childhood education
Educational leadership and policy
Expert teaching practice
General education studies
Inclusive and special education
TESOL