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Leadership for Learning - EDCN842

This unit focuses on the nature of leadership and what it means to lead for learning in a variety of educational contexts including early

childhood, primary, secondary, adult and higher education. Participants:

- explore and critique experience and existing knowledge and understanding of leadership in educational settings;

- develop specialised knowledge of the broad theory and research relevant to the study and practice of educational leadership;

- build a deeper understanding and appreciation of recent developments in research, theory and practice of leadership for learning through a process of individual and collaborative scholarship and critical reflection;

- apply a range of relevant theories and constructs to the analysis of their own and others' experience of leadership and management in an educational setting and, through this,

- develop and demonstrate capacity to lead for learning in multifaceted and changing educational organisations.

Credit Points: 4
When Offered:

X2 - External study; Offered in Session 2

D2 - Day; Offered in Session 2, North Ryde

Staff Contact(s): Ms Cathy Rytmeister
Prerequisites:

Admission to MA in Education Studies or MEChild or PGDipEChild or PGCertEChild or MEd or MEdLead or PGDipEdLead or or PGCertEdLead or PGDipEdS or PGCertEdS or MHEd or PGDipHEd or PGCertHEd or MSpedEd or PGDipSpecEd or PGCertSpEd or MTeach(Birth to Five Years) Prerequisite Information

Corequisites:

NCCW(s): ACES842, EDL902, EHE902
Unit Designation(s):

Arts

Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Department of Education

Faculty of Human Sciences

Timetable Information

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