Module overview
This module aims to introduce you to the core aspects of leadership and management theories. It will give you the opportunity to consider key themes related to leadership and management approaches and their impact on educational practice. This module aims to enable you to develop your analytical and critical skills, as it draws on empirical insights and knowledge and as far as possible links them to your experiences. Having successfully completed this module you will be able to use theoretical and empirical evidence to make suggestions for improving practice.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Systematically analyse educational leadership and management concepts and reflect on the broader education policy contexts.
- Discuss in an informed manner the diversity of leadership approaches and policy within different education contexts (national and international perspectives).
- Critically discuss the broader policy context in leadership and education, gain some insights into leadership impact on student learning, decision making and change, leadership and motivation and consider power and trust in leadership and management relationships.
- Organise and articulate a line of argument in speech, writing and other appropriate media using relevant specialist vocabulary.
- Reflect on the relationships between leadership and teachers' professional development as well as students' learning.
Syllabus
- Leadership and Management Theories
- Instructional Leadership/ Leadership for Learning
- Leadership, Professional Learning and Development
- Leading Learning through Mentoring and Coaching
- Teacher Leadership/ Distributed Leadership
- Leadership and Motivation
- Leadership in schools in challenging contexts
- Power and trust in leadership and management relationships
- Understanding Policy and Educational Leadership
- Leadership, Decision Making and Change
- Careers and Employability Pathways: Routes into educational leadership positions
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Normally, the two hour face-to-face sessions are mainly 'tutor led in lecture format', followed by seminars which create a platform for students' engagement and interaction (e.g., through group discussion, debates, case studies). All students will be offered the opportunity of a face-to-face tutorial with the tutors to discuss the assignment topic.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 125 |
| Teaching | 25 |
| Lecture | 2 |
| Total study time | 152 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
The challenge of leadership: ethnicity and gender among school leaders in England, Malaysia and Pakistan. In Miller, P. Cultures of Educational Leadership: Global and Interculture Perspectives. Pages 95 - 119.
Journal Articles
Kelly, A. (2004). The intellectual capital of schools: analysing government policy statements on school improvement in light of a new theorization. Journal of Education Policy, 19(5).
Rhodes, C. and Brundrett, M. (2009). Leadership development and school improvement. Educational Review, 6(4).
Day, C. Sammons, P., Hopkins, D., Leithwood, K and Kington, A. (2008). Research into the impact of school leadership on pupil outcomes: policy and research contexts. School Leadership & Management, 28(1).
Kaparou, M. and Bush, T. (2016). Instructional leadership in Greek and English outstanding schools. International Journal of Educational Management, 30(6).
Textbooks
Bush, T., Bell, L. and Middlewood, D. (2010). The Principles of Educational Leadership & Management. London: SAGE.
Northouse, P.G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and Practice. London: SAGE Publications.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Assignment | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework assignment(s) | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Assignment | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External