EDUC9616 Leadership and Management in Education

This topic draws from a range of philosophical and ideological ideas to explore concepts such as leadership, management, managerial leadership, educational leadership, educational management and organisational leadership.

The concept of management is critiqued against understandings of leadership as a phenomenon. As such, important characteristics of leadership and management can be investigated.

Educational leadership and management are not ends in themselves, rather leading and managing are intentional activities that advance educational purposes institutionally and systemically. An educational leader's intentional and responsive engagement has consequences for the organisational culture and a leader's ongoing learning. In a similar way, how leaders work with the emergent and relational circumstances on a day by day basis is integral to the organisational culture.

Recent international trends regarding the theory and practice of leadership which include the standardisation and standard-based evaluative approaches to educational leadership need critique.

This topic aims to:

• Explore a range of philosophical and ideological views on the concept and nature of leadership, management, managerial leadership, educational leadership, educational management and organisational leadership
• Critique concepts of management against understandings of leadership as a phenomenon
• Examine the intentionality of leading and managing which advance the educational purposes institutionally and systemically at a local level
• Explore the relationship between an educational leader's day to day intentional and emergent activity with the implications for the organisational culture and the leader's ongoing learning
• Review recent international trends regarding the theory and practice of leadership in relation to standardisation and standard-based evaluative approaches to educational leadership

1. Critique the concept and nature of leadership, management, managerial leadership, educational leadership, educational management and organisational leadership from a range of philosophical and ideological perspectives
2. Appraise concepts of management against understandings of leadership as a phenomenon
3. Evaluate the influence and intentionality of leading and managing which advance the educational purposes of an educational organisation at a local level
4. Examine an educational leader's intentional and emergent activity with the implications for the organisation's culture and the need for ongoing learning
5. Critically review recent international trends in educational leadership regarding standardisation and standard-based evaluative approaches to educational leadership