Overview
Challenges facing humans in the 21st Century are complex and profound. This topic places the educational leader in the context of rapid and complex social and environmental change. Contemporary challenges are discussed in the educational setting including responding to technological specialisation, changing labour relations, transmigration, the internationalisation of education and … For more content click the Read More button below.
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Aims
This topic aims to develop student:
- Critical capacity in assessing educational issues and their research dimensions
- An advanced understanding of the politics and ethics of education policy, research and management
- Knowledge of key issues in educational practice, policy, governance and cultural change
- Advanced and in depth knowledge of two key facets of challenges facing future education e.g. sustainability, labour relations)
- Advanced reflection and knowledge of how and why research is imperative to developing sustainable educational futures, and
- Awareness of the diversity of strategies of innovative leadership, practitioner activism and strategies of effective change
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Assumed knowledge
Computer skills, library research skills, teaching and educational practice, educational leadership and management.