EDF5847 · Educational leadership: Policy and advocacy

Overview

This unit focuses on educational leadership, management and administration as defined in policy and enacted in practice. It will examine the concept of leadership in the development and leading of high-quality educational programs for all children. This will include researching and building on existing knowledge of leadership within the early childhood policy context. This will include engagement with policy making processes within local and global contexts. Specific attention is given to the conceptualisation of policy actors, debates and newly emerging discourses in policy documents of children and childhoods within an ethical global context. You will develop an understanding of how policies shape and influence the lives of children and families and the role of leadership in this process. The role of advocacy for children, families and the profession as leadership work will be prioritised allowing you to draw together your learning across the course into an advocacy project.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. articulate and demonstrate professional values and commitment to leadership as a means of securing socially just and sustainable futures for all children
2. research, synthesis and critique the scholarship on leadership for the purpose of supporting continuing, reflexive and generative professional learning
3. research, analyses and critique key policy trends in relation to leadership, management and administration and how they are shaping children’s worlds both in Australia and globally
4. research, synthesis and critique the scholarly literature and related material on a current early childhood education policy issue for the purpose of demonstrating leadership and advocacy for the profession
5. demonstrate deep disciplinary and ethical understandings of leadership and professional identity and apply these to develop an advocacy project that illustrates knowledge of leadership as a process of change and transformation.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.