EDF5662 - Leading local, rural and regional learning and participation - 2017

This unit supports educators and leaders to work collaboratively with other professionals and community-based personnel to enhance learning and wellbeing in local, rural and regional contexts. It examines notions of place including 'rurality', at both the local and global level as it relates to education policy development, reform and community resourcing. It considers the work of leadership to foster participation in local, rural and regional community engagement renewal and development. Students apply ideas around leadership to identify the opportunities and challenges of living and working in local, rural and regional contexts and strategies. Strategies for leading ways forward for communities to participate positively in their own renewal are developed through work on a particular case. The unit is well suited to teachers, principals, community and other educational workers interested in learning about leading and participating in community renewal.

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

1. understand the diverse distinctions between definitions of metropolitan, rural and regional communities as they relate to educational policy, leadership, resourcing and experience
2. analyse and develop strategies to work collaboratively with other professionals and community-based personnel to enhance learning and wellbeing in local, rural and regional contexts
3. identify the opportunities and challenges of working in local, rural and regional contexts particularly in relation to leadership and community engagement and increasing participation
4. understand how to develop place-based learning experiences that connect the local and the global
5. examine a particular community and apply approaches to build community resilience, engagement and participation.

Critical analysis of community participation and engagement (4000 words, 50%)

Examining a community case study (4000 words, 50%)

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:

1. 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
2. Additional requirements (all students):
   • independent study to meet the minimum required hours per semester

See also Unit timetable information

Professor Simone White

Option for Master of Education in:

Adult learning

Educational leadership and policy

General education studies

Elective for Master of Teaching in:

Early years education

Primary education

Secondary education

Elective for Honours research in:

Education