Educational Leadership MEd: Online distance learning
Developing as an Agent of Change EDUC51086P
- Academic Session: 2024-25
- School: School of Education
- Credits: 30
- Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- Typically Offered: Either Semester 1 or Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: No
- Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
Short Description
The main focus of this course is to enable participants to lead and sustain educational change and improvement using appropriate knowledge and understanding of organisational theory, culture, change and learning.
Timetable
A blend of synchronous and asynchronous online components.
Excluded Courses
NA
Assessment
Assessment will consist of two components:
a) A reflective report that draws on organisational culture as reflective practice in which participants identify and critically reflect on cultural artifacts in their organisation (1,500 words)
b) A written assignment equivalent to 3,500 words in which participants demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, skills and application of the course through a critical analysis of a key educational leadership and change process that has, or is occurring, within their particular setting (department, school, educational organisation).
Course Aims
This course aims to:
■ Deepen participants' understanding of relevant research and policy in which leaders are positioned as key agents in the delivery of change and improvement in schools and educational organisations.
■ Develop participants' knowledge and expertise in the leadership of change through:
■ critical engagement with relevant academic literature and
■ the application of this literature to identify and reflect critically on key educational leadership and change processes occurring in educational organisations or a wider policy context.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course, students will be able to:
■ Apply theoretical and applied understandings of the concept of leading change to deliver improvements in learning and teaching.
■ Identify and justify an area for change and improvement, drawing from sources of data, research and other information relevant to their context.
■ Critically reflect upon and evaluate professional practice and the potential to lead sustainable change within their own educational settings.
■ Understand the nature of change in organisations and the development of theory concerned with the management of change.
■ Develop a mindset for managing and leading organisational change.
Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits
Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the summative assessment for the course.