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2010/11 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5471M Educational Leadership and Management in the Professions

30 creditsClass Size: 20

Module manager: Dr Linda Evans
Email: L.Evans@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2010/11

This module is mutually exclusive with

EDUC5731M

International Educational Management: Developing Staff for I

Module replaces

EDUC5425M Lifelong Learning and the Professions

This module is approved as an Elective

Module summary

Developing leadership and management capacity, knowledge and understanding, is the key purpose of this module. The issues, problems and challenges that confront students in their work contexts will determine the syllabus. This experience will be explored using the theoretical perpectives and cutting edge research introduced in the module.Those participating in the module may be serving or aspiring leaders and managers. The module content is focused on leadership, management, professionalism and development of staff. An interactive, experiential learning approach is adopted: students will participate in leading group activities and task-focused challenges, whilst contributing to seminar presentations, allowing practice of the very leadership and management capacity that the module is seeking to develop.

Objectives

The main aim of the module is to introduce students to research-based ideas for successfully leading and managing people working in lifelong learning contexts, including professions other than education, and to examine ways in which these ideas may be usefully applied to educational leadership policy and practice in general, and specifically to students' own work contexts, in order to improve their leadership and management capacity.

Within this main aim are three specific objectives:
i) To develop students' understanding of the factors which influence:
a) people's attitudes to their jobs, including their morale, job satisfaction and motivation,
b) how teachers and other education professionals develop, and
c) leaders' and managers' capacity for getting the best out the staff whom they lead and manage.

ii) To provide students with the opportunity to examine and to develop their skills of critically analysing pertinent literature and, more specifically, published research findings.

iii) To provide students with the experience of critically analysing and developing policy and practice based upon research findings and prescriptive literature, and of drawing up plans for the practical application of research findings and theory in relation to professionalism, leadership, and the management of people working in lifelong learning contexts, including the professional development of staff in professions other than education.

Learning outcomes
By the end of this module, students will:

i) have gained an overview of occupational psychology and of its key concepts, theories and theoretical perspectives
ii) understand the factors that have been shown to influence job-related attitudes, particularly among education professionals
iii) be familiar with key features of policy and practice in relation to leadership that manages to motivate and increase job satisfaction and morale
iv) have gained an introductory overview of social theory related to organisational and professional cultures
v) be able to identify key aspects of the process of developing and sustaining work cultures that bring out the best in people
vi) have gained an overview of sociological theory related to professionalism
vii) understand the factors that have been shown to influence the processes whereby professional development occurs

Skills outcomes
Students will develop the capacity to
i) select appropriately and read academic literature critically and apply it to the development of their own arguments
ii) analyse and formulate definitions of key concepts used or encountered in their own work in the field
iii) extrapolate information from relevant research and academic literature and use it to inform their own professional work
iv) lead, manage and develop staff effectively and to evaluate their own professional practice, especially in relation to leadership and management, and diagnose how it may be improved

Syllabus

Overview:
The module will incorporate occupational psychological, sociological and, to a limited extent, philosophical perspectives on leading and managing staff working in lifelong learning contexts, including the professional development of staff in professions other than education.

More specifically:
It will achieve the objectives listed above through conceptual and ontological analysis and examination of the factors that influence, and the factors that are influenced by:
-job-related attitudes, particularly morale, job satisfaction and motivation;
-professionalism and professionality;
-professional development and workplace learning

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	6	1.00	6.00
Seminar	18	1.00	18.00
Private study hours			276.00
Total Contact hours			24.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Identifying and evaluating contemporary and relevant research (76 hours)
Reading theoretical and conceptual publications (80 hours)
Planning, preparing and writing assignment (120 hours)

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

The seminars will provide an opportunity to monitor how effectively participants have been able to seek out and critically analyse relevant research. In seminar discussions, their evident depth of understanding will be monitored as an indicator of their progress.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	6,000 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 04/04/2011

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