The course aims to provide participants with the opportunity to explore practice in the context of relevant contemporary theory and research in the field of educational leadership and management. The course is distinctly multi-disciplinary in nature, and provides participants with a framework for improving their own leadership and management action and professional practice and hence the quality of their schools. To this end, the course will provide the participant with both the systematic acquisition of advanced academic knowledge and the support to explore and develop high level leadership and management skills.

Five online seminars (1-2hrs)

One weekend intensive (Friday 2-5 & Saturday, 10am-5pm)

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Essay (50%) c2000 words. The essay will require students to reflect on key theories of leadership and management in a changing context relevant to contemporary practice. ILOs 1-6

Production of one c2000 word case study project report (50%). Participants will be required to think about an area of their professional practice / workplace that they would like to learn more about and develop. The remit of the 2000-word report will require students to identify a professional concern or challenge they would like to explore using any of the methods introduced during the course. ILOs 1-6

This course aims to:

1. provide an opportunity for study of an advanced nature into the theoretical bases of organizational and person-centred project leadership

2. furnish students with a framework to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, strategic leadership and management skills and experience which will enhance the participant's ability to contribute to the organisational effectiveness of their own institutions

3. provide an international perspective on educative leadership and management

4. engage in reflective debate and practice

By the end of this course students will be able to: 

1. Engage in high level scholarly and professional learning which is both personal and collective

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the components of effective leadership and the ability to relate these to their own professional situation

3. Identify the significance of the international dimension to leadership studies

4. Critically engage in high level critical and analytical thinking to relate theory and practice and apply broad based conceptual awareness

5. Communicate and present complex ideas, through engaging in evidence based research

6. Articulate a sophisticated self-awareness of their own development as leaders

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.