Teaching and learning methods
The module utilises three main approaches: lectures, seminars and a group project, leading to a presentation.
Lectures will be used to discuss theoretical and conceptual leadership approaches and models. These will be interactive and include short exercises to help students (working individually or in pairs) to relate these to school practices.
Seminars will use a range of school case study resources relating to the study of aspects of leadership in schools, including empirical research papers, reports and other authoritative grey literature sources, and wider educational material such as thematic case study exercises and video resources. For these sessions, students will be split into smaller tutor-led seminar classes and will be set tasks to undertake in small groups.
For the group project, students will be allocated to one of a number of small teams. Each team will be set a task to develop a presentation that offers a critique of a particular perspective on individual leadership in relation to their applicability in schools