Educational Leadership and Policy
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 24 hours face to face + Blended and Swinburne Online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Prerequisites
EDU80020 Professional Experience 2
or
EDU80051 Professional Experience 2
Aims and objectives
This unit focuses on developing what it means to be a leader in a contemporary educational setting. It explores key challenges in developing leadership capabilities. Contemporary theories about educational leadership are examined in a national context, and pre-service teachers will be encouraged to reflect on current and likely future issues facing schools and school leaders. The content around these topics will add to pre-service teachers’ understanding of the dynamics between leadership, culture and change, and the challenges for leaders. Pre-service teachers will develop skills to make sense of, and constructively respond to, policies within organisational contexts.
Unit Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
Unit Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Express advanced mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice in leadership studies.
2. Evaluate, analyse and theorise about developments in leadership that contribute to greater understandings and improvements in professional practice
3. Integrate knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in supervising and/or appraising staff.
4. Critically analyse how policies and programs shape education.
5. Critically evaluate your knowledge and understanding of pedagogical approaches to promote children’s learning and wellbeing, and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, in ways that are responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being
Courses with unit
Master of Teaching (Secondary)Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Seminar | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Online Contact Online Class | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Independent Learning | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
| Specified Learning Activities Various | 4 | 12 | 48 |
| TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Specified Learning Activities Various | 6 | 12 | 72 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Independent Learning | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
| TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Essay | Individual | 50% | 1, 3, 4 |
| Report | Group | 50% | 1, 2, 5 |
Content
• Educational Leadership in a changing world.
• Policy agendas, policy drivers, twenty first century learning.
• Challenges in developing educational leadership.
• Public education, role of the state, internationalism, globalisation/ legislation and responsibilities.
• Leadership styles, purpose of educational leadership, roles, governance of schools.
• Leadership concepts and theories.
• Sustainable and effective leadership.
• Women in educational leadership, multiculturalism, diversity, Indigenous leadership.
• Democratic leadership, teachers, students, communities.
• Complexity theories and organisations.
• Teachers, students, communities – action plans.
• Policy agendas, policy drivers, twenty first century learning.
• Challenges in developing educational leadership.
• Public education, role of the state, internationalism, globalisation/ legislation and responsibilities.
• Leadership styles, purpose of educational leadership, roles, governance of schools.
• Leadership concepts and theories.
• Sustainable and effective leadership.
• Women in educational leadership, multiculturalism, diversity, Indigenous leadership.
• Democratic leadership, teachers, students, communities.
• Complexity theories and organisations.
• Teachers, students, communities – action plans.
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials will be made available in the Unit Outline.