Module EFPM911 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EFPM911: Educational Leadership and Management
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The content of the module may change to reflect emerging and developing theory, research, policy and practices in the field of education change, leadership and management. Nevertheless it will consider key ideas, theories, technologies, techniques and practices and content is likely to include:
- How are educational institutions led and managed?
- What does research tell us about the leadership and management of education in different educational settings?
- What means of managing and leading change in educational institutions have emerged and what is their relationship to wider political, social, economic and moral environments?
- How are educational institutions and learning monitored and evaluated?
- How might practices and techniques associated with mentoring and coaching help facilitate education change?
- In what ways do leadership identities emerge and what might be their significance for educational leaders?
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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30 | 270 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 30 | 30 hours of in-class sessions including seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 120 | Directed study (e.g. completion of prior knowledge and experience audit, web-based activities, preparing for academic tutorial, preparing for seminars, responding to seminar activities, contributing to online activities/discussion) |
Guided Independent Study | 50 | Directed reading related to topics discussed in the module |
Guided Independent Study | 100 | Preparing for assignments and further independent reading |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Critical reflection: Leading and managing | 2,500 words equivalent | 1-7 | Written tutor feedback |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay: Critical reflection upon leadership | 100 | 5,000 words | 1-11 | Written and tutor feedback |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay: Critical reflection upon leadership | 5,000 words | 1-11 | 6 weeks |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Gronn, P. (1999) The Making of Educational Leaders, London: Cassell
Gronn P. (2000) Distributed properties: A new architecture for leadership. Educational Management and Administration. 28(3), 317–338.
Hall, D., Moller, J., Schratz, M., and Serpieri, R. (2017) From welfarism to neo-liberalism: Conceptualising the diversity of leadership models in Europe. In: Waite, D. and Bogotch, I. (eds) The International Handbook of Educational Leadership, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
Hall, D. (2013) Drawing a Veil over Managerialism: Leadership and the Discursive Disguise of the New Public Management, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45 (3), 267-282.
Ozga, J. (2009) Governing education through data in England: from regulation to self-evaluation, Journal of Education Policy, 24 (2),149-162.
Thomson, P. (2008) Headteacher critique and resistance: a challenge for policy, and for leadership/management scholars. Journal of Educational Administration andHistory, 40 (2), 85–100.