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Unit of Study EDU83101 - Contemporary Educational Leadership (2020)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • AQF level

    8

  • Level of learning

    Advanced

  • Former School/College

    Former School of Education

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces students to key concepts in both the research literature and industry practice relevant to contemporary educational leadership, and relates these to national and international educational environments. Encourages students to reflect on their personal experience in relation to research literature on leadership, and to learn how to critically analyse and apply relevant leadership concepts in their professional practice.

Unit content

Topic 1: Introduction to concepts of educational leadership.

Topic 2: Theories and models of educational leadership and their practical implementation.

Topic 3: Influence of corporate and managerial models on educational leadership.

Topic 4: Challenges of leadership: ethics and values, balancing competing demands.

Topic 5: New ways of leading: distributed, collaborative, parallel and shared leadership models. 

Topic 6: The role of inspiration and leadership as service in education settings.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Study Period2,6
Study Period2,6

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Critically engage with the research literature on educational leadership.
2 Describe and analyse the origins, distinguishing features and effects of various models of leadership in the field of education.
3 Apply concepts of educational leadership to a local context, and present and defend a strategy for improvement.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Critically engage with the research literature on educational leadership.
    • GA5:
  2. Describe and analyse the origins, distinguishing features and effects of various models of leadership in the field of education.
    • GA5:
  3. Apply concepts of educational leadership to a local context, and present and defend a strategy for improvement.
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:

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