Overview

This topic adopts a critical lens in a consideration and critique of the concept and nature of educational governance. Educational governance, in other words the means by which educational organisations are formally organised and managed, is situated within organisational inter-relationships and involves the roles and functions of leadership and management … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Provide a critical consideration of the concept and notion of educational governance as this is situated within inter-relationships, roles and functions of those in leadership and management
  • Develop understandings of the enabling and limiting capacities of educational governance to the structures, roles and relationships within and between various key stakeholders
  • Critique the ability of those in governance to empower leadership and management practices within an educational organisation in relation to the aspirations of the wider educational community
  • Conceptualise governance responsibility and practice from a strengths-based orientation, where opportunities are proactively sought that maximise the networking synergies and organisational review processes which advance the mission and vision of the organisation

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Criticallly analyse a range of literatures on governance and have the ability to reflect on the usefulness of chosen elements in relation to an actual contextual issue
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Develop skills of analysis in forming a governance perspective which identifies a possible future approach to the identified issue
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Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the key elements of a governance perspective in relation to the practical envisioning of a future approach

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Assumed knowledge

Prior leadership and management experiences.