Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EFPM911: Educational Leadership and Management

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

The principal aim of this module is to facilitate the critical examination by module participants of educational leadership and management.

This module will examine key questions such as:

How might we characterise educational leadership and management?
What are the key models of educational leadership and what is their relationship to the contexts in which they are practised?
What is the role of teams and the collective in educational leadership?
What is the relationship between learning and educational leadership?
In what ways might mentoring and coaching enable and develop leadership and management?
What is the significance of identity to educational leadership
In what ways might you as an education leader and/or manager seek to develop your practices in the light of your learning on this programme?

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of different notions of education leadership and management 2. Critically evaluate different theoretical perspectives on education leadership and management 3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of key global, national and local issues in educational leadership and management
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. Critically reflect upon and evaluate your own understanding of education leadership and management and its application to education settings with which you are familiar 5. Consider and critically reflect on ideas concerning the relationship between educational leadership and management theory, research, policy and practice 6. Critically evaluate research evidence related to the leadership and management of education
Personal and Key Skills	7. Synthesise and organise ideas to present a convincing argument 8. Engage in critical, reflective debate 9. Evaluate your own leadership and management practices in relation to facilitating education change 10. Consider the application of theoretical ideas, policy positions and research implications to educational leadership practices 11. Undertake both directed and independent study to recognise, justify and analyse key ideas in educational leadership and management literature and relate these to research, theory, policy and practice

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
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
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).