International Comparative Studies in Educational Leadership

Course aim

To explore, compare and critically examine educational leadership across global, national, local and cross-institutional education settings, with a particular focus on leading professional learning communities. To apply these deep understandings of similarities and differences across educational settings with the ultimate aim to lead school reform to improve learning, curriculum and pedagogy.

Course content

Students will examine and compare international, national, local and cross-institutional educational policies. Students will explore the contested nature of ‘educational leadership’ as a global construct, focusing on key areas of the field, such as leading learning, instructional leadership, distributed leadership, relational leadership and transformational leadership. Students will critically examine comparative differences in curriculum, pedagogy and educational ethos and review various comparative case studies, developing their own site specific case study centred upon leadership, pedagogy and curriculum in the context of leading professional learning communities.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Literature review

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.