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ED60277: Educational management, leadership and administration

[Page last updated: 05 August 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: Department of Education
Credits: 18 [equivalent to 36 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 360
Level: Doctoral (FHEQ level 8)
Period:
Modular (no specific semester)
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Assignment (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Aims: The unit's aim is to provide students with a critical understanding of:
i. the multiple disciplinary influences on, and contributions to, the field of educational management leadership and administration;
ii. the applied nature of the field of educational management leadership and administration, and the potential and actual complexity of theory/practice relationships within it;
iii. the influence of social, economic, political and legislative contexts upon theory and practice within the field;
iv. the significance of different types of institutional context for theory and practice within the field;
v. the value and limitations of different approaches to researching, reporting, and evaluating educational management, leadership and administration theory and practice;
vi. the value and limitations of a range of principles, theories, and techniques in educational management, leadership and administration;
vii. how to evaluate literature that is relevant to the field.

Learning Outcomes: As a result of the development of this critical understanding, participants will be better able to:
i. understand and evaluate the methodologies and products of research in the field of educational management leadership and administration;
ii. make appropriate judgements about which approaches to educational management, leadership and administration they can best apply in their own educational contexts;
iii. conceive, plan, and justify appropriate research methodologies designed to promote development in their own educational area of responsibility;
iv. contribute collaboratively to educational management, leadership and administration projects and programmes, both providing expertise themselves, and responding appropriately to the expertise of others;
v. carry out all the above at a level which meets the requirements of the EdD degree as a whole;
vi. review critically literature that is relevant to the field.
Hence, participants will become both more skilled in the application of appropriate skills, theories and techniques within particular contexts, and more critically aware of the way in which values and cultural assumptions necessarily underpin such application.

Skills: (i) Apply a systematic and coherent approach to critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of ideas, information and issues that is well-grounded in existing educational research and literature in the area of teaching and learning (intellectual skill)
(ii) Identify, conceptualise and communicate original and well-grounded insights and responses to important issues of educational policy and practice that demonstrate advanced scholarship (professional/ practical skill)
(iii) Identify and address complex and/or emerging issues in educational management, leaders and administration and make informed judgements in the absence of complete or consistent information (professional/ practical skill)
(iv) Continually develop and enhance participants' own practice in leadership and management through critical reflection and practical action with the aim of improving conditions for the development of all involved in the educational enterprise (professional/ practical skill)
(v) Continually develop and enhance participants' own practice and influence the practice of others in the area of leadership and management through critical reflection and practical action with the aim of improving conditions for the development of all involved in the educational enterprise (professional/ practical skill)
(vi) Use networked learning technologies as a means of developing one's own professional practice and scholarship (transferable skill).

Content: Students will be introduced to a small number of educational management, leadership and administration case studies at an early stage of the course. These will be used to illustrate and exemplify particular ideas and concepts through the course, and will be evaluated by students towards the end of the course.
Studies will be organised under the following headings, but pursued with due regard to their interconnectedness:
* Conceptualising the field of educational management, leadership and administration.
* The influence of context on educational management, leadership and administration.
* Management, leadership and administration within educational organisations.
* Management, leadership and administration of the organisational environment.
* Evaluating educational management, leadership and administration.

Programme availability:

ED60277 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Education

Notes:

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